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Title
Letter from Joseph Arnold on the Hope Country at Gravesend to Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square, London, 12 May 1816
Call number
Aa 43
Level of description
fonds
Date

12 May 1816
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
900619
Physical Description
1 folder of textual material
Scope and Content
In this letter Joseph Arnold informs Sir Joseph Banks about the loss of three boxes of exotic plants sent to Banks from the Lieutenant Governor of Java. The letter also mentions the enclosure of the folliculus of a tree from New South Wales, collected by Mr Evans.
Description source

Compiled from the Manuscripts A file as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Attributions / conjectures

This letter was incorrectly attributed to Joseph Aruits in the Library's manuscript index card catalogue.
Creator/Author/Artist
Arnold, Joseph, 1782-1818
Name
Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
Hope Country (Ship)
Subject
Botany--New South Wales.
Botany--Pacific Area.
Naturalists--Great Britain--Correspondence.

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