John Morton to Hans Sloane – June 24, 1704
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Date: June 24, 1704 Author: John Morton Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: ff. 322-323
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Material Culture, Patronage, Royal Society, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Animals, Books, Gifts, Hogs, Specimens, Stones, Subscriptions
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June 24, 1704
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Oxendon
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Morton is glad his account of the hog’s stone was well received at the Royal Society. He gifts the stone to the organization and thanks Sloane for encouraging him. He is worried his subscribers are becoming suspicious due to the slow progress he is making. John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
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