John Ray to Hans Sloane – August 14, 1700
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Date: August 14, 1700 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 49-50
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Scholarship, Scientific
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Botany, Catalogues, Classification, Gratitude, Plants, Specimens
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August 14, 1700
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Black Notley
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William Sherard
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Ray thanks Sloane profusely and hopes his condition improves enough to repay Sloane for his kindness. He has little hope of this happening in ‘the short time he has left in this world’. He is thankful to Sherard for sending his collection to have it classified, but this task is beyond Ray’s strength. Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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