Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – October 25, 1708
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Date: October 25, 1708 Author: Patrick Blair Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: f. 234
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English
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British Library, London
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Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Scientific
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Figures, Porpoises, Publishing
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October 25, 1708
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Dundee
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Blair sends the final figures depicting the porpoise. He wants to know whether Sloane considers them worthy of publication and hopes his botanical papers will soon appear in the Philosophical Transactions. Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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