Martin Martin to Hans Sloane – August 2, 1697
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Date: August 2, 1697 Author: Martin Martin Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 338-339
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Travel
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Curiosities, Scotland
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August 2, 1697
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William Courten alias Charleton Dr Wallace
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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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