Letter 0556

Adam Buddle to Hans Sloane – February 4, 1699


Item info

Date: February 4, 1699
Author: Adam Buddle
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 203-204



Original Page



Transcription

Buddle discusses Ray’s Synopsis and Bobart’s botanical descriptions. Buddle was a botanist who collected information ont he flora of England throughout his life, bequeathing them to Sloane upon his death in 1715 (James Britten, Buddle, Adam (bap. 1662, d. 1715), rev. Janet Browne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3883, accessed 19 June 2013]).




Patient Details