John Martyn to Hans Sloane – June 13, 1730
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Date: June 13, 1730 Author: John Martyn Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051 Folio: ff. 42-43
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Animals, Botany, Chelsea Physic Garden, Deaths, Employment, University of Cambridge
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June 13, 1730
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Emanuel Coll
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John Ray William Rutty John Woodward Mr Johnston
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[fol. 43] Emanuel Coll. June 13. 1730 Sir I am informed that Dr. Rutty is dead, & that several of my Friends propose that I should succeed him. I am far from desiring the place, if any Gentleman better qualified will accept of it; but if not, I should be glad to serve the Society in a place, which may be of some little advantage to me, having hitherto been always ready to serve them, without any view of profit. I have not made any personal applications, because I apprehend it is not usual. But I thought my self under a necessity of communicating my intentions to you, whose favour & encouragement have been already of so much service to me, least you should think that I did not desire this place, on account of the expectations of other Preferments at Cambridge. You know how precarious Dr. Woodward’s Professorship is, tho I have followd your advice in becoming a Member of the University; which will wipe off Mr. Windsor’s objection. The Physick Garden [fol. 42] will probably be some years before it is established; & expectation will not bring me food and raiment; as I am already too sensible We have here to be seen some Animals, which seem to be figurd, by Johnston under the name Gazella. I imagine they are the Ovis Cretica, or else the Stepsiceros, if those Animals be really different, as Cains thinks; tho Ray makes them the same in his Synopsis Quadrap. Cains seems to have seen only the Horns, & distinguishes them by their different bendings. The Animals here after as much from each other, the horns of one being almost erect, & those of another a pretty deal extended. If you have any commands here, be pleasd to say them as Sr your most oblige humble Servant Jo Martyn Sr. Hans Sloane
John Martyn (1699-1768) was a botanist. He became Professor of Botany at Cambridge, though he was absent most of the time. In 1730 he moved to Chelsea to have access to the Chelsea Physic Garden. Martyn published botanical works throughout his career (D. E. Allen, Martyn, John (16991768), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18235, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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