Letter 1665

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – March 29, 1710


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Date: March 29, 1710
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 119



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Thoresby describes a fish, which is native to the East Indies, brought to him by the Attorney General of North Carolina. Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 31 May 2011]).




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