Letter 3411

Scheuchzer forwards an excerpt, in Latin, of a letter written by Monsieur Walthier. Scheuchzer requests that Sloane send a simple compass to his son Jean Jacques Scheuchzer, who is working ‘dans le Regiment de Hirtel, Compagnie de Lockman’. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).