Letter 1567

Herman Boerhaave to Hans Sloane – October 11, 1710


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Date: October 11, 1710
Author: Herman Boerhaave
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 160-161



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Boerhaave sends a catalogue of plants from Batavia, which he will try to procure for Sloane. Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch physician, botanist, and humanist famous for his teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leiden. He was a fellow of the Academie des sciences and the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Boerhaave).




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