Letter 2180

Dale thanks Sloane for answering his question regarding the ‘Pareira-brava’. Buddle wants to publish a catalogue of plants. Dale just learned that Sloane had purchased Buddle’s catalogue and collection. He requests the volumes of ‘English plants to be sent to Braintree’ and assures Sloane the books will be safe. Dale asked Mr Innys to build a special case for the transportation of books. He asks Sloane to send the book Mr Grey had shown him. Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).