Letter 0462

John Ray to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1697


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Date: September 10, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 351-352



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Ray informs Sloane that the parcel he sent him is missing. He assures Sloane the carriers he hired are very good and never lose packages. 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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