Letter 3568

Bernard de Jussieu to Hans Sloane – February 4, 1729


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Date: February 4, 1729
Author: Bernard de Jussieu
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 55-56



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De Jussieu writes that Monsieur Pajot’s garden is perfect and has several rare plants. He hopes that Sloane will urge Mr Miller to provide a recommendation to Pajot’s gardener. Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777) was a French naturalist and brother of Anthoine de Jussieu. He earned his MD at Montpellier and practiced medicine from 1720. Jussieu joined the Jardin des Plantes in 1722, edited a new edition of Tournefort’s ‘Histoire des plantes’ in 1725, and was admitted into the Academie des sciences in the same year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_de_Jussieu).




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