Letter 2735

Edward Tyson to Hans Sloane – February 24, 1697/8


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Date: February 24, 1697/8
Author: Edward Tyson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 29-30



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[fol. 30] Sr Mr Hunt was with me to acquaint me yt yr Possum is dead & I do design tomorrow morning to look into his inside I should be glad of ye Company if in ye mean time you would take a little acct of what Authors has described this Animall you would oblige yr Friend & servt Edw: Tyson. Feb: 24 –97.

Tyson wishes to dissect Sloane’s late possum.

Tyson, a physician, was known for his anatomical publications including that of an orangutang (Anita Guerrini, Tyson, Edward (16511708), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27961, accessed 18 June 2013]).




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