Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – June 13, 1710
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Date: June 13, 1710 Author: Charles Preston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 146-147
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Scientific
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Books, Botany, Gardens, Hotbeds, Montpellier, Plants, Specimens
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June 13, 1710
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Edr [Edinburgh]
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William Caruthers Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Dr Mitchel Archibald Pitcairne
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Preston tells Sloane of the new plants he received from an acquaintance at Montpellier, some of which he ‘committed to a hot bed’. He discusses the work of botanical scholars and requests that Sloane send him the Philosophical Transactions ‘from January to February 1708’. Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 2 June 2011]).
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