Letter 3206

King thanks Sloane for sending both volumes of his Natural History of Jamaica. There is a professorship of natural philosophy in Ireland, but ‘we want one of Botany and a physick garden’. William King was a Church of Ireland clergyman and Archbishop of Dublin. He is considered to be the most important figure within the Church of Ireland of his time. King wrote trenchant critiques of other branches of Christianity as well as theological works (S. J. Connolly, King, William (16501729), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15605, accessed 13 Aug 2013]).