Letter 0551

Mr Vernon told Buddle that Sloane was interested in making his acquaintance. He praises Sloane’s botanical and natural philosophical work. He states that he would like to help, but is unsure of how he can. Buddle promises that he will provide plant specimens. He leaves a return address at Mr Day’s, an apothecary in Ipswich. Buddle was a botanist who collected information ont he flora of England throughout his life, bequeathing them to Sloane upon his death in 1715 (James Britten, Buddle, Adam (bap. 1662, d. 1715), rev. Janet Browne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3883, accessed 19 June 2013]).