John Ray to Hans Sloane – March 28, 1701/02
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Date: March 28, 1701/02 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 317-318
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Scholarship
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China, Holland, Magellan Straits, Plants, Printing, Publishing, Specimens
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March 28, 1701/02
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Black Notley
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William Sherard Petrus Hotton
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[fol. 317] Sr In one of your last Letters You were pleased to tell me that You had a parcell of China plants, wch You would doe me the favour to give me the sight of Having now almost gone over Dr Sherards, I am ready to receive them, I therefore desire you would please to send hither so soon as may stand with Yr leisure & convenience. I am very listlesse & unable to stirre about & to turn over & search books, & so can make but poor work wch new & non-descript Plants, unlesse the Specimens be very fair; wch is ye reason I can make but little use of You Magellan-straits Plants. My Methodus Plantaru emendata & aucta is now printing in Holland, & almost finished, so that I hope shortly to have a Copy to present You I am highly obliged to Dr Hotton for his pains & care in presiding the edition, & revising & correct me the Proofs, so that I doubt not but the Book will come out very correct. My Wife salutes You with ye tender of her humble service with whom joyns Sr, Your most obliged friend & humble servant John Ray Black Notley March 28. 1702.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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