Letter 1526

Scheuchzer sends a copy of Morgagni’s ‘Adversaria Anatomica’. The author asked him to share it with his English friends, through Dr Georg Werndlin. Scheuchzer asks Sloane to bring the book to the attention of the Royal Society and to let him know what they think of it. He sends a manuscript of his own on fish, likely the ‘Piscium Querelse et Vindiciae’. He will forward his barometrical observations at the end of the year. 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).