Letter 0783

Edward Lhwyd to Hans Sloane – December 10, 1703


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Date: December 10, 1703
Author: Edward Lhwyd
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 222



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Lhwyd thanks Sloane for his gift to the museum, writing that it will be displayed in a window. He will send Sloane any subscriptions they receive. He asks Sloane to talk to Mr Walter on his behalf. Edward Lhwyd (1659/60-1709) was a naturalist and philologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708. Sir Hans Sloane described him as the best naturalist in Europe (Brynley F. Roberts, Lhuyd , Edward (1659/60?1709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16633, accessed 26 June 2013]).




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