Letter 0420

Northleigh thanks Sloane for his last letter and wishes ‘mr Hally a good voyage & variety of observations’. He is eager to see Signor Malpighi because he ‘had a correspondence with him when In Italy’. Northleigh had sent a treatise ‘Concerning the Structure of the Cuticula’ to Sloane and reminds him of its content. John Northleigh (1656/7-1705) was a physician and pamphleteer. He trained as a lawyer before studying medicine and setting up a practice in Exeter. Northleigh published several works on contemporary politics (Andrew M. Coleby, ‘Northleigh, John (1656/7–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20331, accessed 9 July 2014]).