Letter 1439

Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – April 14, 1709


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Date: April 14, 1709
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 310-311



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Preston writes about Tournefort’s death. He requests back issues of the Philosophical Transactions. Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 1 June 2011]).




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