Letter 1301

Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – December 4, 1705


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Date: December 4, 1705
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 101-102



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Hotton informs Sloane of a new book by Guglielmini on medicine and another by Sbaraglia on anatomy. Peter Hotton (1648-1709), also known as Petrus Houttuyn, was Professor of Botany and Medicine at Leiden University. He supervised the university’s botanic gardens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn).




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