Letter 1983

Chamberlayne thanks Sloane for the books. He will give Jablonski what Sloane forwards when he meets with him. Chamberlayne suggests that the Royal Society grant ‘Diplomas’ to anyone it wishes as they do at foreign scientific institutions. Jablonski has not complained about not being admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society sooner, even though he has every right to do so. John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, Chamberlayne, John (1668/91723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).