Letter 1475

Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – April 8, 1707


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Date: April 8, 1707
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 336-337



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Hotton provides further explanation of the package he sent by John Bannerman on March 22. See: Sloane MS 4040 ff. 328-330. 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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