Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – March 21, 1711
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Date: March 21, 1711 Author: Robert Sibbald Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 260-261
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Material Culture, Philosophical Transactions
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Antiquities, Books, Natural History
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March 21, 1711
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Edr [Edinburgh]
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Archibald Betson John Ray
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Sibbald’s nephew delivers some antiquities. He thanks Sloane for sending Ray’s ‘Natural History’ and asks for copies of the Philosophical Transactions from 1700-1703 and 1709. 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 3 June 2011]).
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