John Woodward to Hans Sloane – November 27, 1707
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Date: November 27, 1707 Author: John Woodward Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 77-78
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British Library, London
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Social, Travel
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November 27, 1707
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Gresh. Coll.
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Jean Rodolphe Lavater John Thorpe
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[fol. 78] Sr. This inclosed came under a Cover with one directed to me this morning. He sends me word Dr. Lavater is on his Journey hither. But said nothing of his Jtnr Alpinuml so that I fear what I sent from Mr. Thorpe on the Subject did not come to him; which I entreat you to tell him if you happen to see him. Sr. Your vey humble Servant Woodward Gresh. Coll. 27. Nov. 1707.
Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, “Woodward, John (1665/1668-1728)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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