Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – January 15, 1709
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Date: January 15, 1709 Author: Robert Sibbald Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 269-270
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English
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British Library, London
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Royal Society, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Books, Scotland, Subscriptions
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January 15, 1709
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Ede [Edinburgh]
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Sibbald asks that the enclosed book be presented to the Royal Society. He wants the members’ opinion of it. Sibbald queries if any members are interested in subscribing to the second volume of another work. He details how much it will cost, how subscribers can pay, and how it will be delivered. Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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