Letter 1476

Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – May 11, 1707


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Date: May 11, 1707
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 358



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Hotton encloses a letter from Johann Jacob Scheuchzer and a catalogue. The bearer is Mr Gartzweiler, of Aachen, a young man interested in medicine and botany. Peter Hotton (1648-1709), also known as Petrus Houttuyn, was Professor of Botany and Medicine at Leiden University. He supervised the university’s botanic gardens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn).




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