James Yonge to Hans Sloane – October 1, 1709
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Date: October 1, 1709 Author: James Yonge Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 61-62
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English
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British Library, London
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Curiosity Reports, Scholarship, Scientific
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Animals, Embryos, Experiments, Hares, Simples
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October 1, 1709
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Plim'o
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Hinter T. Millinton Abraham Cyprianus
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Yonge asks whether he did something to offend Sloane because some time has elapsed since he last heard from him. Yonge mentions a small experiment, the effects of which he could not reproduce. He describes a tale he heard from a gentleman of a hare that had ‘two fully grown young ones among the Bowels; but almost rotten: and three immature embryos in the throat.’ Yonge thanks Sloane for the ‘Aldrovandus de Serpentibus’. James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).
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