Letter 1337

Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – April 10, 1703


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Date: April 10, 1703
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 109-110



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Hotton updates Sloane on concerns raised in their previous letters. He has more information on the works of Tournefort, as per the query in MS 4039 ff. 91-92, including something concerning Mr Sherard. He informs Sloane that someone is preparing an index of plants that may slightly contradict his own work on ‘Ahmella Ceylonensibus’. Peter Hotton (1648-1709), also known as Petrus Houttuyn, was Professor of Botany and Medicine at Leiden University. He supervised the university’s botanic gardens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn).




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