Letter 0408

John Ray to Hans Sloane – February 21, 1695


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Date: February 21, 1695
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 227-228



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Ray asks Sloane to clarify some of the points made in the papers he sent for Ray’s review. He outlines the issues he has in great detail. 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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