Letter 0937

Nehemiah Grew to Hans Sloane – July 12, 1704


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Date: July 12, 1704
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 328-329



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Grew asks Sloane to come to the College tomorrow, as the lease of his house is to be signed at that time. Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011]).




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