Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – October 18, 1705
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Date: October 18, 1705 Author: Charles Preston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: ff. 79-80
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English
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British Library, London
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Library, Royal College of Physicians, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Books, Botany, Elections, Meeting, Real Estate
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October 18, 1705
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Edr [Edinburgh]
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Sir Andrew Balfour Sir Robert Sibbald
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Preston writes that Sloane was unanimously accepted into the Royal College of Physicians. A diploma will arrive soon. The College had almost dwindled away after Balfour’s death, but things have changed. Now they plan on buying land in the City and having regular meetings. Preston asks about Sir Robert Sibbald’s ‘discours upon the root Chara’ and botany more generally. 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 1 June 2011]).
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