William Wotton to Hans Sloane – July 1, 1696
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Date: July 1, 1696 Author: William Wotton Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 242-243
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English
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Social
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Books, Catalogues, Jamaica, Natural History of Jamaica, Publishing
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July 1, 1696
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Charles Plumier Paul Hermann Rauwolf Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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Wotton praises Sloane’s ‘Catalogue of ye Jamaican Plants’ and admits his ‘thirst to see ye Natural History of Jamaica finished by you’. Wotton was a child prodigy, having received his BA from Oxford at the age of nine. He mastered several languages and fields of inquiry and became a member of the Royal Society in 1687 as well as being ordained in 1689. He published many works on history, theology, culture, and politics and contributed to the Philosophical Transactions (David Stoker, Wotton, William (16661727), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30005, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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