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2 unusual facts about James Edward Smith


Giacomo Filippo Durazzo

Its collection was documented by English botanist James Edward Smith in 1787, but after Durazzo's death, it was not preserved.

Tafl games

The following rules are based on the 1811 translation of Lachesis Lapponica into English by James Edward Smith.


×Crataemespilus

xCrataemespilus grandiflora (Sm.) E.G.Camus, hybrids between M. germanica and C. laevigata (originally named Mespilus grandiflora Sm.).

Acacia suaveolens

The species was first formally described by English botanist James Edward Smith in 1791 in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London He described it with reference to a cultivated plant at Syon House which had been raised by Thomas Hoy from seed that originated from New South Wales.

Edmund Davall

Davall became interested in botany, making the acquaintance of Edward Forster and of James Edward Smith, and becoming one of the original fellows of the Linnean Society.

Eriocaulon scariosum

Based on specimen information "communicated from New South Wales in 1792, by John White, M. D.", this species was formally described using this name and in 1819 that was published scientifically by James E. Smith, London, in The Cyclopaedia.

José Correia da Serra

Those signing his Certificate of Election and Candidature were: James Edward Smith, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Edward Whitaker Gray, Maxwell Garthshore, Samuel Solly, James Rennell and William Marsden.


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