Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – October 18, 1707
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Date: October 18, 1707 Author: Peter Hotton Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 44-45
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Latin
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British Library, London
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Collections, Patronage, Scholarship, Social
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Books, Botany, Catalogues, Dropsy, Gardens, Jamaica, Natural History, Post, Recommendations, Seeds, Specimens
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October 18, 1707
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Leiden
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Gartzweiler Etienne Francois Geoffroy Gjuro Baglivi (Georgius Baglivus)
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Hotton has sent copies of Sloane’s book to Tournefort and Geoffroy in France. He includes three catalogues of books with this letter. Baglivi’s work on dropsy is of particular interest to him. Hotton thanks Sloane for being so kind to Mr Gartzweiler of Aachen,recommended to Sloane by Hotton in Sloane MS 4040 f. 358. Hotton asks if Sloane can get him some seeds of the ‘pinguicula gesneri’, a plant he has read about in Ray’s Synopsis of British Plants. He does not have it in his garden. 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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