Letter 1479

Antoine de Jussieu to Hans Sloane – March 29, 1711


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Date: March 29, 1711
Author: Antoine de Jussieu
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 266



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De Jussieu asks that Sloane provide information on Ray and Plukenet. He wants to pay homage to them in the preface of his book. De Jussieu offers to send seeds. Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758) was a French naturalist and physician who, like Sloane, studied at Montpellier. He replaced Professor of Botany Joseph Pitton de Tournefort at the Jardin du Roi in Paris when the latter died in 1708. De Jussieu was admitted as a member of l’Academie des sciences in 1711 and was responsible for the introduction of coffee to the Antilles in 1720 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Jussieu).




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