Letter 0749

John Beaumont to Hans Sloane – May 14, 1702


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Date: May 14, 1702
Author: John Beaumont
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 343



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Beaumont describes the contents of Mr Cole’s collection: rocks, sea shells, insects, plants, fossils, many microscopes, and a telescope. The collection has been valued at £150. John Beaumont was a natural philosopher, geologist, translator, and writer who contributed specimens to the Royal Society’s collection (Scott Mandelbrote, Beaumont, John (c.16401731), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1876, accessed 1 Sept 2011]).




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