Letter 0662

William Sherard to Hans Sloane – January 6, 1701


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Date: January 6, 1701
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 119-120



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Sherard discusses botany, exchanging books, and tree branch specimens. He wants Mr Wasp to do some collating for him. Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).




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