Letter 0448

Thomas Molyneux to Hans Sloane – May 22, 1697


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Date: May 22, 1697
Author: Thomas Molyneux
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 314



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Molyneux’s botanical paper was read to the Royal Society and he is curious to hear how it was received. Thomas Molyneux was a physician and natural philosopher who corresponded with Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Locke (J. B. Lyons, Molyneux, Sir Thomas, first baronet (16611733), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18927, accessed 4 July 2011]).




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