John Ray to Hans Sloane – April 15, 1699
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Date: April 15, 1699 Author: John Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 252-253
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Medical, Scholarship, Scientific
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Subjects
Botany, Insects
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Date (as written)
April 15, 1699
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Black Notley
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Others mentioned
Paul Hermann Paolo Silvio Boccone
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Patients mentioned
John Ray
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Transcription
Ray apologizes for making such slow progress on his work. He has been adding Hermann and Boccone’s work into his Supplement. He would like to meet Krieg and Vernon before taking notes from them. Ray discusses his latest botanical observations and his notes on caterpillars and beetles. He would like to do more, but his ‘glass is almost out’, and he is in too much pain to so. 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]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A John Ray
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Description
Ray is in too much pain to work more.
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Medical problem reference
Pain