Letter 4013

Martin Martin to Hans Sloane – August 2, 1697


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Date: August 2, 1697
Author: Martin Martin
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 338-339



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Martin is travelling throughout the Hebrides looking for natural curiosities to send to the Royal Society. He will soon be heading for Edinburgh. Martin studied medicine in Leiden and practiced as a doctor in Middlesex, England until his death in 1719 (Domhnall Uilleam Stibhart, Martin, Martin (d. 1718), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18201, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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