Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – September 4, 1697
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Date: September 4, 1697 Author: Charles Preston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 349-350
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English
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Scientific
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Books, Botany, Gardens, Plants, Specimens, Weather
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September 4, 1697
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Ede: [Edinburgh]
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John Ray Sir Robert Sibbald
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Preston laments the inconstant weather that has been preventing him from visiting the gardens. He discusses plant specimens and the botanical literature. Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 1 June 2011]).
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