Charles du Bois to Hans Sloane – December 1, 1703
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Date: December 1, 1703 Author: Charles du Bois Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: f. 220
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British Library, London
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Collections, Patronage
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Botany, England, India, Plants, Specimens
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December 1, 1703
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Du Bois presents Sloane with Indian specimens in return for the many favours he has received. He hopes this takes him far enough out of Sloane’s debt to request some doubles of Sloane’s English plants. Charles du Bois was a botanist working as the cashier-general of the East India Company. He became acquainted with other natural historians like James Petiver, William Sherard and Sloane, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1700 (B. D. Jackson, Dubois, Charles (bap. 1658, d. 1740), rev. P. E. Kell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8113, accessed 8 July 2013]).
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