Letter 0835

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William Derham to Hans Sloane – March 27, 1703


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Date: March 27, 1703
Author: William Derham
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 103


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[fol. 103] Sr Upminster Mar: 27 1703 I have send you my last years Tables of the Weather, Sr, very faithfully observed. They are so wholly at your service yt you may do as you please with them. I believe I have allready, or shall get some in France to make the like Observations. And therefore altho these Tables are of little use at present; yet hereafter they may perhaps be desired to be inspected by some member of the Academie des Scavans. I would have given you this trouble sooner in the year, but I have long been in expectation of an answer from Mr Fenneley. If he (as no doubt he will) sends me any thing curious, & worth your notice, I will take care to impart it to you, either by a Lr [letter] to your self or To avoid troubling you too often, by some other hand. The account wch formerly I gave you of the Beating Louse, or […] ash-watch, I am now able to perfect, & give a compleat History of […] Insect. Which shall be at the Societies Service, if when I see you next, you comand it from Sr Your much obliged humble servant Wm Derham

Derham was a Church of England clergyman and a natural philosopher, interested in nature, mathematics, and philosophy. He frequently requested medical advice from Sloane, and likely served as a physician to his family and parishioners (Marja Smolenaars, “Derham, William (1657-1735)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7528, accessed 7 June 2011]).



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