Letter 0936

Samuel Doody to Hans Sloane – July 10, 1703


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Date: July 10, 1703
Author: Samuel Doody
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 326-327



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Doody requests Sloane’s company in Greenwich on Thursday at noon to view a collection of plants. Samuel Doody was a botanist, elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1695. According to contemporaries his personality prevented him from publishing or presenting his work, though he contributed one article to the Philosophical Transactions. Many of his dried plant specimens were housed in Sloane’s herbarium (B. D. Jackson, Doody, Samuel (16561706), rev. Ruth Stungo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7825, accessed 9 July 2013]).




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