Letter 2747

Nehemiah Grew to Hans Sloane – September 13, 1698


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Date: September 13, 1698
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 116



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Grew returns some of Sloane’s books. He asks if Sloane has an article in the Transactions ‘published by Mr Oldenburge No. 60’. Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011].




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