Letter 4559

Dr. Hans Sloane to Mr. John Ray – Sept. 11, 1696.


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Date: Sept. 11, 1696.
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 (London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1848)
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 (London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1848)
Folio: p. 306



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SIR, – I have received, after much search, three sorts

of beans from the north-west islands of Scotland, which are thrown up by the sea from the north-west great ocean, and gathered in plenty on those north-west shores, and are such as grow in Jamaica, viz. the bean called there cocoons, that called horse-eye bean, and the ash- coloured nickar, or bonduch. You will find them all in my Catalogue, under those vulgar names, by the index; there is also a fourth sent me thence, which is, I think, the Avellana quadrifida, J. B. Where its natural place is I know not; but the others you may find their countries by the authors which I speak of them, for they must come to Scotland by the currents of the sea. I have heard of some thrown up in England, and should be glad to have your thoughts of this matter. The small coral in Fal- mouth Road you may see I found in England, and had it from the Magellan Straits. I beg your pardon for this trouble.

London, Sept. 11, 1696.

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. 306

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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