John Ray to Hans Sloane – October 21, 1689
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Date: October 21, 1689 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: f. 62
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Scholarship, Social, Travel
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Jamaica, Meeting, Publishing, Seeds, Weather
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October 21, 1689
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Black Notley
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Sir Tancred Robinson
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Ray is alarmed his last letter did not reach Sloane. Sloane is welcome to visit Black Notley whenever he is nearby. Ray encourages Sloane to publish his Jamaican observations and is glad his return voyage to England was uneventful. He thanks Sloane for the seeds. The weather was supposed to be poor the coming winter and Ray does not expect Sloane to travel in it. 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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