Letter 1124

Yonge is glad the letter he submitted to the Royal Society was well-received. He thanks Sloane for directing him to another issue of the Philosophical Transactions with a similar account of a strange birth. There are, however, few similarities in Yonge’s view. James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).