Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – September 25, 1706
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Date: September 25, 1706 Author: Charles Preston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: f. 222-224
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English
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British Library, London
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Curiosity Reports, Philosophical Transactions, Scientific, Social
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Archimedes, Botany, Gardens, Scandinavia, Storms, Trees, Weather, Whales
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September 25, 1706
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Edr [Edinburgh]
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Mr Adair
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Preston has been busy working on his physic garden. He thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions. Preston goes on to discuss a number of things: the progress of his trees’ growth, Archimedes’ contemporaries, trees from Norway and Sweden, and a storm that threw a whale onto the road near St Andrew’s. He includes an illustration of a flower: f. 223. 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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