Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – June 2, 1707
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Date: June 2, 1707 Author: Samuel Dale Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: ff. 365-366
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English
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British Library, London
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Royal Society, Scholarship, Social
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Books, Deaths, Entomology, Insects, Jamaica, Monuments, Natural History, Publishing
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June 2, 1707
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Braintree
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John Ray Mr Thorp
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Dale has not heard anything about Ray’s monument. He asks for a copy of Sloane’s ‘History of Jamaica’. He is under the impression that the Royal Society is in favour of publishing Ray’s ‘History of Insects’ without additions. Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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