Letter 1586

Herman Boerhaave to Hans Sloane – July 11, 1714


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Date: July 11, 1714
Author: Herman Boerhaave
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 277



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Boerhaave looks forward to seeing a catalogue of plants from a British garden. He asks Sloane to favour the carrier. 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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