John Ray to Hans Sloane – August 24, 1686
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Date: August 24, 1686 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 19-20
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Social
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Plants, Post, Specimens
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August 24, 1686
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Black Notley
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Ray has sent Sloane some plant specimens for his consideration. He describes them in some detail. Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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