Letter 0638

De la Pryme thanks Sloane for sending the Philosophical Transactions. He sends Sloane a box of petrified shellfish along with what he knows about them. He writes that he will send more information if the account is worthy of the Transactions. De la Pryme promises to forward an odd letter from the East Indies. De la Pryme was an antiquary, who established extensive correspondence with other antiquaries such as Nathaniel Johnston, Thomas Gale, Ralph Thoresby, and Sloane. In 1702, on Sloanes proposal, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (C. E. A. Cheesman, Pryme, Abraham (16711704), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22852, accessed 25 June 2013]).