Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – July 4, 1705
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Date: July 4, 1705 Author: Richard Middleton Massey Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: f. 51
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Material Culture, Scholarship
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Churches, Fossils, Inscriptions, Plants, Ruins, Specimens
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July 4, 1705
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Wisbich in the Isle of Ely
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Humfrey Wanley George Hickes James Petiver
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Massey has collected plant specimens, but he does not know which specimens are rare. He has preserved some for Sloane and Petiver. Massey lists fossils he has collected and describes the ruins of the Abbey of Crowland. He asks that Wanley or Hickes translate the inscriptions from the church’s pillars. Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).
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