Letter 1816

Chamberlayne sends the translation Sloane requested. He apologizes for its poor quality. He thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions. Chamberlayne is impressed with Arbuthnot’s study on the number of males and females in the natural world. John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, Chamberlayne, John (1668/91723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).