Letter 1004

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – July 31, 1705


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Date: July 31, 1705
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 59



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Sibbald’s friend Mr Hamilton sends fossils, shells, and sea plant specimens. He thanks Sloane for the specimens he sent. Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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