Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – January 13, 1702
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Date: January 13, 1702 Author: Charles Preston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 286-287
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English
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British Library, London
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Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Scientific
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Fungi
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January 13, 1702
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Edn [Edinburgh]
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John Ray
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Preston thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions and asks for those he missed from 1700. He discusses fungi in detail and encloses an item to be forwarded to John Ray. Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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