John Ray to Hans Sloane – September 29, 1697
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Date: September 29, 1697 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 356-357
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Scholarship
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Amsterdam, Natural History of Jamaica, Physic Garden, Plants, Publishing, Specimens
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September 29, 1697
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Black Notley
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Mr Smith
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[fol. 356] Sr, I have this morning by carrier remitted ye 2 Tribes of Jamaica Plants you last sent. Mr Smith in his Letter to me made no mention of his determining them. He sent me together with them in back in folio of the description & figures of the more rare Plants of the Physick garden of Amsterdam wch I suppose you have by this time perused. Some plants I there find discovered also & described by you. I hope now you will hasten the edition of your naturall History of Jamaica &c that it may be published before my supplement be finished wch then may neither defraud you of the Honour of the first publication nor hinder but rather advantage the the sale of ye book. So with ye tender of my Wives humble service I take leave & rest Sr Your obliged friend & humble Servant John Ray B.N. 7br.29.97
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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