Letter 1267

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort to Hans Sloane – October 12, 1704


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Date: October 12, 1704
Author: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 373



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Tournefort recommends the bearers, MM Lavater, and asks that Sloane help them in London. Tournefort has a large book for Sloane, which he will send once the war is over. 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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