Letter 0379

Bobart sent Sloane a packet of seeds last week by the carrier Mr More ‘to the saracens heard on Snow-hill’. He looked over Sloane’s list and sent what he could. Bobart includes a list of seeds he supposes Sloane possesses and a list of the ‘Plants now sent’ to Sloane. Jacob Bobart (1641-1719) was a botanist and son of Jacob Bobart, the elder (c.1599-1680). He worked with his father at the Oxford Physic Garden for nearly 40 years (D. E. Allen, ‘Bobart, Jacob, the younger (1641–1719)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2742, accessed 5 June 2015]).