| RefNo | CB/1/1/144 |
| AltRefNo | BLA.B.61 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square to Charles Blagden |
| Date | 28 February 1815 |
| Description | Discusses high price of home and imported wheat, Didot's new method of printing, Dr Wales's theory of radiation is contradicted by experience, frost and snow in Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana], Rouse-Boughton's trip to India. Young "always wishes to conceal himself as a man of science it being his wives opinion that his science impedes his practice as a Physician". Discusses skulls and embalmed bodies received from Peru - they were on their way to France and were taken as part of a Prize [by the Navy] but only a small number survived as the crew threw them overboard - asks Blagden if he can find anything out about them. Mentions bronzed pottery, sends pamphlets. Gives particulars of "poor [Smithson] Tennant's death. |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | Item 323, The Banks Letters, A Calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum... London, 1958. |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |
| NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |