Letter 0736

Alexander Stuart to Hans Sloane – February 28, 1701/02


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Date: February 28, 1701/02
Author: Alexander Stuart
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 306-307



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Stuart thanks Sloane for his letter and for sending Bellini’s ‘Opuscula’, which goes beyond the scope of Stuart’s original request. Stuart was a physician and natural philosopher. He served as a ship’s surgeon from 1701-1707 and corresponded with Sloane while at sea, sending him natural history specimens. Stuart contributed articles to the Philosophical Transactions from the 1720s, mostly on physiology (Anita Guerrini, Stuart, Alexander (1673?1742), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47081, accessed 3 July 2013]).




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