Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – March 16, 1710
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Date: March 16, 1710 Author: Robert Sibbald Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 112-113
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Books, History, Publishing, Scotland, Translations, Virgil
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March 16, 1710
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Ede [Edinburgh]
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Mr Niral Calvin Duglass Martin Lister
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Sibbald sends a description and history of Fife and Kinross, with copies for the Royal Society and Martin Lister. A translation of Virgil, by Bishop Calvin Duglass, has been published. Sibbald promises to send more descriptions of Fife. Sir Robert Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 30 May 2011]).
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