Letter 4529

Samuel Brewer to Hans Sloane – August 10, 1732


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Date: August 10, 1732
Author: Samuel Brewer
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 158-159



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Brewer discusses botany. He includes a list of specimens sent to Sloane. Samuel Brewer (bap. 1669, d. 1743?) was a botanist. He discovered several plant species that were included in the third edition of John Ray’s ‘Synopsis’, which was published in 1724 (John Martin, ‘Brewer, Samuel (bap. 1669, d. 1743?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3366, accessed 8 Aug 2014]).




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