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John Martyn to Hans Sloane – June 13, 1730
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Date: June 13, 1730
Author: John Martyn
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 42-43
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[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
John Martyn (1699-1768) was a botanist. He became Professor of Botany at Cambridge, though he was absent most of the time. In 1730 he moved to Chelsea to have access to the Chelsea Physic Garden. Martyn published botanical works throughout his career (D. E. Allen, Martyn, John (16991768), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18235, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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David Wilkins to Hans Sloane – January 9, 1721/22
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Date: January 9, 1721/22
Author: David Wilkins
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 177-178
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[fol. 177] Jan.ry 9th. 1721/22 Honoured Sr. I have Design of printing Seldens Works, & being inform’d that You have some of His MSS & Emendations upon His printed Books, beg the favour of You, for the Publick use, to communicate to me whatever you may have of Selden’s. This great favour shall publickly be acknowledged & always. thankfully own’d by Honoured Sr Your most obed.t Humble Servt. Dd Wilkins.
Wilkins was a scholar, specializing in Coptic studies. His work on Seldon is characterized as “careless” while his other output mostly involved copying and compiling (Alastair Hamilton, Wilkins, David (16851745), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29417, accessed 31 Aug 2011]).
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James Blackley to Hans Sloane – February 2, 1721/22
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Date: February 2, 1721/22
Author: James Blackley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 197
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[fol. 197] Sr The Assistance you have given ye African Comp by your advice and Correction of the Catalogue & specimen of Drugs sent over to Guinea makes me hope I shall be excused this trouble, as it arises only from an Inclination to improve so good a design. If any thing I offer as a further help to their being discovered, may possibly merit S.r Hans Sloane’s Incouragement, I shall esteem my self very happy in that as I have many obligations to ye Comp, and having employed some part of my time in the study of Physick, I think an Attempt to serve them in any Capacity is but my duty. It will be a very great honour done me, to be favoured with an opportunity of laying my design before you, and receiving your Opinion whither the Prosecution of this and some other thoughts in Physick, may be of any use to ye Comp or not I am Sr with greatest Respect your most obedient humble servt James Blackley Feb. 2d. 1721[/22] African house Leaden hall street S.r Hans Sloane
James Blackley, of the African Company.
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René Jacques Croissant de Garengeot to Hans Sloane – August 21, 1730
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Date: August 21, 1730
Author: René Jacques Croissant de Garengeot
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 87-88
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Garengeot received the list of Royal Society members. A second edition of his book on operations is nearly finished. Sloane will receive a copy of the book by Charles Denis ‘In Paton Square near haymarket’. Garengeot wants to know whether Sloane received the dissertation. He has not spoken to Morand or Cheselden about the operation, an account of which he suggests should be published in the Memoires de l’académie.
René Jacques Croissant de Garengeot (1688-1759) was a French surgeon. He was Surgeon-Major of the Régiment du Roy and the Physician-in-Ordinary of the Roi au Châtelet. Garengeot was a member of l’Académie de chirurgie de Paris and the Royal Society (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/René-Jacques_Croissant_de_Garengeot).
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Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – October 18, 1707
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Date: October 18, 1707
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 44-45
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Language
Latin
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Patronage, Scholarship, Social
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Subjects
Books, Botany, Catalogues, Dropsy, Gardens, Jamaica, Natural History, Post, Recommendations, Seeds, Specimens
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Date (as written)
October 18, 1707
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Leiden
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Others mentioned
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Gartzweiler Etienne Francois Geoffroy Gjuro Baglivi (Georgius Baglivus)
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Patients mentioned
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Hotton has sent copies of Sloane’s book to Tournefort and Geoffroy in France. He includes three catalogues of books with this letter. Baglivi’s work on dropsy is of particular interest to him. Hotton thanks Sloane for being so kind to Mr Gartzweiler of Aachen,recommended to Sloane by Hotton in Sloane MS 4040 f. 358. Hotton asks if Sloane can get him some seeds of the ‘pinguicula gesneri’, a plant he has read about in Ray’s Synopsis of British Plants. He does not have it in his garden.
Peter Hotton (1648-1709), also known as Petrus Houttuyn, was Professor of Botany and Medicine at Leiden University. He supervised the university’s botanic gardens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn).
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Herman Boerhaave to Hans Sloane – July 26, 1709
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Date: July 26, 1709
Author: Herman Boerhaave
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 42-43
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Boerhaave wants to engage in a correspondence with Sloane to discuss botany. He corresponded with Peter Hotton before the latter’s death. Boehaave has taken Hotton’s position at the University of Leiden.
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch physician, botanist, and humanist famous for his teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leiden. He was a fellow of the Academie des sciences and the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Boerhaave).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – April 26, 1709
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Date: April 26, 1709
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 319-320
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Scheuchzer thanks Sloane for his praise. Herman Boerhaave, a botanist from Leiden, is going to take over Peter Hotton’s position as Professor at the University of Leiden.
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).
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Anna Hermann to Hans Sloane – May 11, 1700
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Date: May 11, 1700
Author: Anna Hermann
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 16-17
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Hermann writes that affairs have kept her busy for weeks. She apologizes for the lack of progress she has made with her late husband’s botany book. She thanks Sloane for his encouragement, discusses booksellers in Holland, and sends her regards to Dr Sherard.
Anna Hermann was the wife of Leiden-based physician and botanist Paul Hermann (1646-1695) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hermann).
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Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – November 11, 1707
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Date: November 11, 1707
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 62-63
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Hotton asks Sloane to send the Royal Society’s most recent index. He discusses the publishing of the late John Ray’s work and the possibility of someone writing a biography of him. The ‘lilio-narcissus Japonicus’ has been flourishing in Hotton’s garden.
Peter Hotton (1648-1709), also known as Petrus Houttuyn, was Professor of Botany and Medicine at Leiden University. He supervised the university’s botanic gardens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn).
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Franciscus Reynardson to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1718
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Date: July 17, 1718
Author: Franciscus Reynardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 130-131
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[fol. 130]
Honoured Sir
I had long ago done myself the honour of returning you my thanks for the benefits i have reapd from your particular recommendation to Professor Boerhaave, could I have met with any thing worthy your notice. My good friend Dr Stephens will deliver you a Latin trans-lation of Lewenhock’s last volume, and a treatise of Mr Vaillant’s; knowing how much the whole learned world appeals to your judgement I am afraid they have already reached you, if not, I shall think myself happy. Give me leave, Sir, to congratulate you on yr honour which in you his Majesty has done this whole faculty. Solomon’s Panegyrick in holy writt, and Sir Hannes Sloane’s patent will be a proof, to all ages how much this wisest of princes have esteemd their greatest Physicians. I am with this profoundest respect Sir Your very much obliged and truly humble servant F. Reynardson
Franciscus Reynardson was a physician. He graduated from Leiden University in 1714 (Edward Peacock, Index to English Speaking Students Who Have Graduated at Leyden University (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1883), 83).