Letter 2285

Musgrave is writing a book titled ‘Belgius Britannico’ and needs ‘the Glastum Mela et Pliny’ to help him explain the ‘Color Belgius of Propertius’. He requests a plant description from a book. If Sloane helps him he will gift a copy of his work to the Royal Society. He plans on dedicating the work to His Royal Highness, George I. William Musgrave, Senior was a physician, antiquary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He acted as second secretary to the Royal Society and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions (Alick Cameron, Musgrave, William (16551721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19668, accessed 8 July 2013]).