Letter 0396

Godfrey explains he will be stuck in Sprotbrough all winter. He asks Sloane to send him a copy of the Transactions. Godfrey’s wife ‘beggs [Sloane] will send her ye receipt of Making Bacon like yt of Westphalia’. He wants Sloane to purchase a copy of ‘Traite du mouvement des Eaux et des Autres Corps fluides’ by Monsieur Mariotte for him. Godfrey was busy ‘Building & surveying’ so as to ‘make a much more exact Map of this part’. He examined a ‘large Wild Duck’ the other day and was fascinated by its physiology. He discusses the bird in some detail. Godfrey gives his service to Sir Robert Southwell and asks Sloane to let him know of any new books he ‘received from beyond sea’. Sir Godfrey Copley was a politician and active member of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the latter in 1691 (C. I. McGrath, Copley, Sir Godfrey, second baronet (c.16531709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6269, accessed 24 June 2013]).