Letter 0668

Charles Leigh to Hans Sloane – February 9, 1701


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Date: February 9, 1701
Author: Charles Leigh
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 132-133



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Leigh sends a collection of petrified plants. He advises Sloane to keep them from the air. Leigh was a physician and naturalist. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1685 (C. W. Sutton, Leigh, Charles (16621701?), rev. Michael Bevan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16377, accessed 25 June 2013]).




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