John Ray to Hans Sloane – February 12, 1695
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Date: February 12, 1695 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: f. 226
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British Library, London
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Scholarship
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Natural History of Jamaica
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February 12, 1695
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Ray read over Sloane’s papers and found some ‘Typographicall Errata’ in the text. Most of the problems were with ‘the Greek words’ used therein. He admires Sloane’s ‘patient in turning over so many Voyages & Relations of Travellers, besides Herbarists & other Authors, & making Collections out of them, & that to so good purpose, to correct mistakes, to clear up difficulties & obscurities’. 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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