Letter 3769

[fol. 43] Emanuel Coll. June 13. 1730 Sir I am informed that Dr. Rutty is dead, & that several of my Friends propose that I should succeed him. I am far from desiring the place, if any Gentleman better qualified will accept of it; but if not, I should be glad to serve the Society in a place, which may be of some little advantage to me, having hitherto been always ready to serve them, without any view of profit. I have not made any personal applications, because I apprehend it is not usual. But I thought my self under a necessity of communicating my intentions to you, whose favour & encouragement have been already of so much service to me, least you should think that I did not desire this place, on account of the expectations of other Preferments at Cambridge. You know how precarious Dr. Woodward’s Professorship is, tho I have followd your advice in becoming a Member of the University; which will wipe off Mr. Windsor’s objection. The Physick Garden [fol. 42] will probably be some years before it is established; & expectation will not bring me food and raiment; as I am already too sensible We have here to be seen some Animals, which seem to be figurd, by Johnston under the name Gazella. I imagine they are the Ovis Cretica, or else the Stepsiceros, if those Animals be really different, as Cains thinks; tho Ray makes them the same in his Synopsis Quadrap. Cains seems to have seen only the Horns, & distinguishes them by their different bendings. The Animals here after as much from each other, the horns of one being almost erect, & those of another a pretty deal extended. If you have any commands here, be pleasd to say them as Sr your most oblige humble Servant Jo Martyn Sr. Hans Sloane