Letter 4227

Breynius writes to Sloane thanking him for the comforting letter he received during such a turbulent time. He also thanks him for Catesby’s 6th part of Natural History and some transactions. He mentions the death of Mr. Hampton and his History of Plants and other Natural History things. And also the death of Mr. Linik. He would like a copy of Dr. Martin’s Historia Plantarum, garden trees of London, and Dr. Blair’s Pharmaco botanologie, Petivers Pterigraptia Americana. He asks Sloane to send anything he has to Mr. Gibson in London and promises to send him some seeds from his garden soon. Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) German botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist, entomologist, and Fellow of the Royal Society (1703).