Letter 2191

Chamberlayne thanks Sloane for getting the ‘Bond’ for him, even though he has not yet paid his ‘Contribution Mony for this year’. He sent that money with Mr Bates. He asks what answer the Royal Society has for ‘Dr. Hierne a Swede’ who inquired as to what happened to the books he presented to the Royal Society. Chamberlayne wants to know if Sloane has any instructions for Mr Dudley regarding his ‘Maple-sugar’. He reminds Sloane that foreigners ought to be shown respect for all of the troubles they endure to contribute to the Royal Society. He asks if Sloane could ‘get the R.S. to subscribe to Mr Child’. Dr Harris got a subscription from ‘the College’. 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]).