Letter 4557

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Dr. Hans Sloane to Mr. John Ray – May 20, 1692


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Date: May 20, 1692
Author: Dr. Hans Sloane
Recipient: Mr. John Ray

Library: The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by DR. Derham and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum
Manuscript: The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by DR. Derham and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum
Folio: p. 249


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SIR,-I have lately seen a collection of petrifications

with Mr. Beaumont. Amongst the rest is the Lapis astroites, which is a sort of coral generated in the seas, between the tropics; and it seemed to be so clearly that, as nothing plainer. It is turned to flint, and the inter- stices between the starry pores are transparent. One of this kind he showed to me was half petrified, the other half remaining, like a common star-stone. He showed me likewise many impressions of several plants in slatt, as ferns, flags, &c. very fair and plain, with several stalks of plants petrified and inclosed in flint, which he talks of publishing, together with some figures of, and reasonings upon, them.

London, May 20, 1692

Edwin Lankester, ed. The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and original letters of John Ray in the Collection of the British Museum (London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1848), p. 249 

Letter destination presumed as Black Notley as Ray’s location in his prior and letter and response to Sloane is Black Notley. Ray was also considered not to have left Black Notley after 1679.



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