Letter 4420

Steigertahl hopes the package including the appendix for the first six months of the ‘Commerce literaire Nurenberg’ reached Sloane. A new volume has been published. He will send a copy as soon as possible. Steigertahl received word from Lübeck that Mr Sievers, a Member of the ‘Societé Royalle de Prusse’, has released a treatise on ‘lapidis musicalis’ (musical stones). He briefly discusses the book’s contents, but does not know whether it is in Latin or German as their librarian, Mr Förster, has not received an excerpt. Volumes ‘416 & 417’ of the Philosophical Transactions have arrived, but ‘411’ did not. Steigertahl requests that Sloane send another copy of ‘411’. Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).