Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – April 24, 1708
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Date: April 24, 1708 Author: Patrick Blair Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: f. 132
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Material Culture, Scholarship, Scientific
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Anatomy, Die Casting, Elephants, Figures
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April 24, 1708
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Dundee
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Blair sends a cast of an elephant with several descriptive tables and figures. Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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