Richard Bradley to Hans Sloane – October 17, 1723
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Date: October 17, 1723 Author: Richard Bradley Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047 Folio: ff. 73-74
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British Library, London
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Botany, Oxford, Physic Gardens, Professorship, Recommendations
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October 17, 1723
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Bradley requests that Sloane provide him with a recommendation. He is applying for the ‘Professorship of Botany’ at Oxford, which would include responsibilities at the university’s ‘Physick Garden’. Richard Bradley (1688?-1732) was a scientific author, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor of Botany at Cambridge (Frank N. Egerton, “Bradley, Richard (1688?-1732)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3189, accessed 10 Nov 2012]).
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