Letter 1743

Nehemiah Grew to Hans Sloane – April 13, 1711


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Date: April 13, 1711
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 275-276



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Grew asks to see a paper, submitted by Mr Hill, before it is published. He would like to add a few words to it. Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011]).




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