John Ray to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1696
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Date: July 17, 1696 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 244-245
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Scholarship
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Subjects
Books, Greek, Publishing
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Date (as written)
July 17, 1696
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Leonard Plukenet
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Transcription
Ray discusses his latest work, which he is trying to finish quickly. He has a copy of Plukenet’s recent work and notes ‘many mistakes in the language & in ye composition of Greek names’. 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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Name: N/A John Ray
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Age:69 years old. -
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Diagnosis
Unspecified.
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