John Woodward to Hans Sloane – April 13, 1722
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Date: April 13, 1722 Author: John Woodward Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046 Folio: f. 229
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library, Scholarship
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Books, Cabinet, Catalogues, Curiosities, Plague
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April 13, 1722
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Gr. Coll.
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Dr. S [Sloane?] John Thomas Woolhouse Mr. Astruc
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[fol. 229] Gr. Coll. 13. Apr. 1722 Sr What you call a Bibliotheca Materiarum would be a Thing of very great Use: & I intreat you to set it forth. I’m satisfyd there’s no where, together, so great a Collection of Physick Books as you have: and, if I have any that you want, you may freely command them towards compleating so noble a Collection. You shall see my Catalogue whenever you please. Mean while, haveing a Dupl.at; from Sr. S of His Translation of Dr Astruc’s Tract of ye Plague, I cannot place it more fitly than wth you. Mr. Woolhouse, Sensible of yr Favours to Him, makes you frequent Offers of his service at Paris: his, I am sure, very sincere & hearty. I am Sr your very faithfull humble servant Woodward S.r H. Sloane
Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, “Woodward, John (1665/1668-1728)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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