Letter 0725

James Sutherland to Hans Sloane – December 11, 1701


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Date: December 11, 1701
Author: James Sutherland
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 276



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Sutherland received the box of medals Sloane sent him. He is most interested in consular and imperial silver pieces. Sutherland introduces Sloane to the bearer, asking him to make his acquaintance. Sutherland was a botanist and was appointed as professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh in 1695. He published the Hortus medicus Edinburgensis in 1683 (Anita Guerrini, Sutherland, James (c.16381719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47083, accessed 27 June 2013]).




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