Letter 0856

Chamberlayne writes on behalf of Mr Shaw, a barrister who wishes to become a member of the Royal Society. He will try to be at the next meeting to remind Sloane to put Shaw forward as a candidate. He inquires about translation of Sloane’s ‘Collection of Travels’. John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, Chamberlayne, John (1668/91723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).