Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – October 8, 1705
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Date: October 8, 1705 Author: Samuel Dale Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: ff. 75-76
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Curiosity Reports, Library, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Bones, Dissections
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October 8, 1705
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Braintree
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John Ray Dr Marchetti
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Dale has been going through Ray’s papers. He sends a couple of curious accounts for the Philosophical Transactions. The first is about a boy’s bones and the second regarding a dissection performed by Dr Marchetti in Padua. Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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