Letter 1651

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – January 28, 1710


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Date: January 28, 1710
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 93



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Sibbald thanks Sloane for the opportunity to print a number sheets for the Royal Society. He asks for all of the Philosophical Transactions from 1707 and 1708. Sibbald wants to purchase a ‘treatise of inserts, by Mr. Ray’ and ‘both parts of Rudbokins his Atlantica’. He spoke with Mr Stuart. Sir Robert 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 30 May 2011]).




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