Antoine de Jussieu to Hans Sloane – May 16, 1732
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Date: May 16, 1732 Author: Antoine de Jussieu Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052 Folio: ff. 115-116
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French
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British Library, London
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Collections, Medical, Patronage, Scientific, Travel
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Cabinet, Curiosities, Experiments, Recommendations
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May 16, 1732
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May 16, 1732
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a Paris
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Job Baster
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Job Baster, a young Dutch physician, is in London to assist with the public medical experiments. He would like to meet the most prominent physicians during his stay and view Sloane’s cabinet of curiosities. Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758) was a French naturalist and physician who, like Sloane, studied at Montpellier. He replaced Professor of Botany Joseph Pitton de Tournefort at the Jardin du Roi in Paris when the latter died in 1708. De Jussieu was admitted as a member of l’Academie des sciences in 1711 and was responsible for the introduction of coffee to the Antilles in 1720 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Jussieu).
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