Christopher Merret to Hans Sloane – January 4, 1696
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Date: January 4, 1696 Author: Christopher Merret Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: f. 281
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Birds, Complaints, Lost, Papers, Post, Specimens
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January 4, 1696
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Boston
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Merret received Sloane’s last letter. He had sent some geese specimens to friends, but the carrier lost them. Merret is going ‘to make an exact scrutiny into it, being resolved to punish the carrier’. He has sent Sloane some papers and offers to send a swan. Christopher Merret was a physician, natural philosopher, and worked as the Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians (D. E. Allen, ‘Merret , Christopher (1614–1695)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18599, accessed 12 May 2015]).
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