Letter 0899

Morton desires Sloane’s correspondence. He was encouraged by Hatton to seek it. He thanks Sloane for favouring his election to the Royal Society and is happy to be a member. Morton is honoured that Sloane intends to visit him. John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).