Samuel Goodenough, Berners Street, [London], to Sir James Edward Smith

• Main Author: Goodenough, Samuel
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic; Goodenough; Kater; Northwest Passage; Parry; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://linnean-online.org/62720/; http://linnean-online.org/62720/1/JES-COR-12-67_001.tif; http://linnean-online.org/62720/2/JES-COR-12-67_002.tif; http://linnean-online.org/62720/3/JES-COR-12-67_003.tif; http://linnean-online.org/62720/4/JES-COR-12-67_004.tif

Compliments Smith's "Grammar of Botany"; believes Smith, Corrêa, and [Robert] Brown only botanists skilled enough to tackle the subject and and Smith the only one to successfully tackle it. [Francisco Antonio] Zea and General Cortes attended the most recent Linnean dinner, "both rather mean looking men". Attended Sir Humphry Davy's conversazione, Captain [William] Parry [(1790-1855), Arctic explorer] also attended, he is writing his book in the country ["Journal of a Voyage to Discover the Northwest Passage" (1821)]. Attended Royal Society dinner and beginning of Antiquarian Society meeting; there was "a ponderous dull paper upon weights and measures" by Captain Kater. Davy a clearer orator than the Antiquarians' president, Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)], whose election Goodenough thinks was an error of judgement.