Joseph Pitton de Tournefort to Hans Sloane – March 28, 1700
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Date: March 28, 1700 Author: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: f. 1
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French
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British Library, London
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Collections, Scholarship, Scientific, Travel
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Books, Botany, Collecting, Dissections, Fish, France, Plants, Specimens
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March 28, 1700
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Marseille
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Andre Gundelsheimer
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Tournefort found nothing worth sending during his trip to Marseilles. He and his colleagues have begun dissecting fish and collecting plant specimens. He will send a copy of the ‘Institutiones Rei Herbariae’ before leaving Paris. Gundelsheimer sends his best wishes. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was a French botanist who developed the idea of taxonomically organizing plants according to the concept of genus. He published the famous Elements de botanique (1694) and travelled the Mediterranean and Caucuses to research their flora from 1700 to 1702 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pitton_de_Tournefort).
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