Letter 0637

Gray informs Sloane that he knows nothing about the pork sent to the Royal Society. Sloane had asked for a more particular account of its fat. Gray claims that someone must share his name or is impersonating him. He adds: ‘I knew not that the salt I gave you an account of had been observed by any one before[,] but by yours am well satisfied it has’. Gray was an experimental philosopher who established a rapport with the Royal Society and Royal Greenwich Observatory, published articles in the Transactions, and experimented with electricity (Michael Ben-Chaim, Gray, Stephen (bap. 1666, d. 1736), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11354, accessed 26 June 2013]).