Description | Papers collected by Sir Thomas Geary and relating to the Linnean Society, including:
- the printed Charter and Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society (1802) - list of Fellows for 1789, 1790 and 1791, with other printed circulars [N.B. interleaved with ms notes on the Zoological Club] - list of some of the members of a Society for Promoting Natural History, on 13 October 1783 - lists of those present at the Linnean Society's first meeting on 18 March 1788 - letter dated 10 June 1800 to Cullum from Thomas Marsham - letter dated 31 October 1796 to Cullum from Samuel Goodenough - ms copy of epitaph of James Dickson (died 14 August 1822) written by Sir James Edward Smith at the request of Dickson's widow
Also includes the following letters:
- letter dated 26 May 1916 from W.D. Edwards to the Secretary of the Linnean Society - letter dated 27 May 1916 from Daydon Jackson to W.D. Edwards - letter dated 26 April 1933 from Assistant Secretary to Colonel A.T. Gage |