Letter 1270

Jean Rodolphe Lavater to Hans Sloane – June 18, 1705


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Date: June 18, 1705
Author: Jean Rodolphe Lavater
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 47-48



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Lavater sends the seeds he received from home. He discusses his garden and his search for a plant in Oxford. Lavater helped dissect a human body with a group of young doctors. He will visit London soon. Jean Rodolphe Lavater was a Swiss physician and naturalist educated in Zurich. He travelled to England in 1704-05 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708 (‘Jean Rodolphe Lavater’, Library Collection, royalsociety.org).




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