Jacob Bobart to Hans Sloane – March 25, 1708
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Date: March 25, 1708 Author: Jacob Bobart Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: f. 123
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Scholarship, Scientific, Social
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Botany, Entomology, Insects, Seeds, Specimens, West Indies
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March 25, 1708
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Oxon
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James Petiver Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
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Bobart discusses Sloane’s botanical scholarship. He is eager to ‘hear what becomes of Dr Schutzers Iter Alpinum, or Mm. Maria Merions promis’d curious remarks upon part of the family of W. Indian Insects’. Bobart asks whether Petiver is preoccupied with his work and if the seeds arrived undamaged. Jacob Bobart (1641-1719) was a botanist and son of Jacob Bobart, the elder (c.1599-1680). He worked with his father at the Oxford Physic Garden for nearly 40 years (D. E. Allen, ‘Bobart, Jacob, the younger (1641–1719)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2742, accessed 5 June 2015]).
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