Letter 1498

Scheuchzer describes the process of publishing his ‘Itinera alpina tria’. He has arranged and categorized its contents. He suggests that he may have something on Swiss botany to publish in the Philosophical Transactions. Scheuchzer asks Sloane to provide contacts for him in France and Italy. He includes two botanical specimens, one for the Royal Society and one for Sloane. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).