Joseph Pitton de Tournefort to Hans Sloane – January 24, 1703
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Date: January 24, 1703 Author: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: f. 77
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French
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library, Social
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Catalogues, Plants, Specimens, War
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January 24, 1703
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a Paris
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William Courten alias Charleton Charles Plumier William Sherard
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Tournefort notes the difficulty of communicating during this time of war. He will wait until peace is restored to send the plants he collected on his last voyage. He is pleased to hear that Sloane has acquired Charleton’s collection. 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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