Étienne François Geoffroy to Hans Sloane – May 15, 1702
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Date: May 15, 1702 Author: Étienne François Geoffroy Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 344-345
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French
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library, Scholarship, Social, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Books, Catalogues, Curiosities, Danube, Gifts, History, Tea, War
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May 15, 1702
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A Paris
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort William Courten alias Charleton Abbe Jean Paul Bignon Philippe de la Hire Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli
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Geoffroy hopes Sloane will forward a catalogue of the curiosities in Mr Charleton’s cabinet. He passes on thanks from Abbe Bignon for Sloane’s letter and admires the regard Sloane showed toward Tournefort, who was forced to return to Paris as a result of the war. He thanks Sloane for the tea and sassafras and notes that the history of the Danube ‘Mr Le Comte Marsigli’ is writing will cover all of the river’s outlying territories. Goeffroy informs Sloane of some Latin texts and the doings of several of their acquaintances. 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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