Letter 2913

De Jussieu sends a copy of Magnol’s ‘Novus Carater Plantarum’. Mattin, a young English physician who studied at the Jardin du Roi, is the carrier. De Jussieu received a botanical treatise and packet of seeds from Rand. The latter gave the book and seeds to Chirac, the physician to the Duc d’Orleans and attendant of the Jardin du Roi, before sending them to De Jussieu. Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758) was a French naturalist and physician who, like Sloane, studied at Montpellier. He replaced Professor of Botany Joseph Pitton de Tournefort at the Jardin du Roi in Paris when the latter died in 1708. De Jussieu was admitted as a member of l’Academie des sciences in 1711 and was responsible for the introduction of coffee to the Antilles in 1720 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Jussieu).