John Ray to Hans Sloane – December 16, 1702
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Date: December 16, 1702 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: ff. 49-50
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English
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Social
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Botany, Illustrations, Publishing
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December 16, 1702
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Black Notley
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Henry Compton William Sherard
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The Lord Bishop of London wants Ray to send a representative to discuss procuring figures for his History of Plants. Ray had asked Sherard to do it, but Sherard was stuck in Portsmouth. Ray asks Sloane to do him the favour of taking Sherard’s place, as Sloane already knows the bishop. 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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