Letter 0995

Morton apologizes for not replying sooner. He has been preoccupied with his work. His book is not yet at press, even though most of it is done. He has been told to wait until all of the entries are finished. Morton will undertake a survey of Northamptonshire to make a new map for his book. As such, he asks Sloane to promote subscriptions to his Natural History of Northamptonshire at the Royal Society. 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]).