Letter 3291

Albertus Seba to Hans Sloane – September 20, 1726


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Date: September 20, 1726
Author: Albertus Seba
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 200-201



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Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist, and collector. In 1711 he delivered drugs to the Russian court and was party to the sale of Frederick Ruysch’s collection to Peter the Great. He sold his personal collection of curiosities to the Tsar in 1716. Seba was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728 and in 1734 he published a renown thesaurus of animals with detailed engravings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertus_Seba).




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