Letter 3222

This letter contains an abstract and outline of Oloff Erichson Willman’s book, ‘Voyage to the E. Indies, with brief account of the Kingdom of Japan in 1648-54’. Willman was the Captain of the Royal Navy of Sweden. Zollman will translate the book from Swedish into English if Sloane thinks it worthwhile. Philip Henry Zollman (c. 1680-1748) was the Royal Society’s first Assistant Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, a post he assumed in 1723. He first landed in England in 1714, was trained in several foreign languages, and regularly corresponded with Leibniz (Derek Massarell, ‘Philip Henry Zollman, the Royal Society’s First Assistant Secretary for Foreign Correspondence’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 46, no. 2 (1992), 219-234).