Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – October, 1706
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Date: October, 1706 Author: Robert Sibbald Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: ff. 233-234
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English
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Scientific
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Aquatic Plants, Publishing, Sea Creatures, Shells, Whales
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October, 1706
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Ede. [Edinburgh]
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Sibbald discusses his work on aquatic animals and includes an illustration of one its plates, which depicts a shell. He describes the shell and offers an account of a whale. Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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