Étienne François Geoffroy to Hans Sloane – January 13, 1710
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Date: January 13, 1710 Author: Étienne François Geoffroy Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 85-86
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French
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British Library, London
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Collections, Curiosity Reports, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Scientific, Trade or Commodities
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Academie des sciences, Experiments, Eye Diseases, Geology, Mercury, Shells, Shipping, Silk, Spiders, Tin
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January 13, 1710
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a Paris
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John Thomas Woolhouse Anthoine de Jussieu de Lorme Abbe Jean Paul Bignon Francis Hauksbee Sr. Mangold
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The package of books Sloane sent with Mangold is still in Amsterdam. Geoffroy mentions Woolhouse’s work on eye diseases. His brother and De Jussieu discovered a great number of shells inland, like those found in England. He requests a shipment of tin for a friend. The issues of the Philosophical Transactions have not reached him. Geoffroy comments, in detail, on some experiments that were performed, which were like those Hauksbee had undertaken. The Academie des sciences received silk made from the filament produced by spiders. Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672-1731) was an apothecary and physician who studied at Montpellier, like Sloane, and worked at the Jardin du Roi and College Royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Francois_Geoffroy).
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