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Thomas Molyneux to Hans Sloane – May 22, 1697
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Date: May 22, 1697
Author: Thomas Molyneux
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 314
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Molyneux’s botanical paper was read to the Royal Society and he is curious to hear how it was received.
Thomas Molyneux was a physician and natural philosopher who corresponded with Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Locke (J. B. Lyons, Molyneux, Sir Thomas, first baronet (16611733), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18927, accessed 4 July 2011]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – October 13, 1697
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Date: October 13, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 362-363
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Ray received ‘the Tribes you were pleased to send me’ and a book. He discusses a recent episode where Dr Woodward berated Sloane in front of the Royal Society. Ray tells Sloane not to take it too seriously, as Woodward is a ‘rude & insolent fellow’.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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Richard Waller to Hans Sloane – October 4, 1697
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Date: October 4, 1697
Author: Richard Waller
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 360-361
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Waller apologizes for not visiting Sloane while he was in London. He was at the Temple Coffeehouse, but did not meet Sloane there. He will send a copy of Dr Connor’s treatise, which is to be Philosophical Transactions.
Richard Waller was a natural philosopher and translator who worked as the Royal Society’s secretary. He also served on its council and edited the Philosophical Transactions (Lotte Mulligan, Waller, Richard (c.16601715), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48707, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1697
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Date: September 10, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 351-352
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Ray informs Sloane that the parcel he sent him is missing. He assures Sloane the carriers he hired are very good and never lose packages.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – September 4, 1697
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Date: September 4, 1697
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 349-350
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Preston laments the inconstant weather that has been preventing him from visiting the gardens. He discusses plant specimens and the botanical literature.
Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 1 June 2011]).
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Samuel Pratt to Hans Sloane – August 23, 1697
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Date: August 23, 1697
Author: Samuel Pratt
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 344
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Pratt apologizes for not being able to call on Sloane during his stay in London. He says that he was simply too hurried and could not see many of the people he wanted to.
Samuel Pratt (1658-1723) was the Dean of Rochester from 1706. He contributed to the recoinage debate and published a two-volume Latin grammar (Hugh de Quehen, ‘Pratt, Samuel (1658–1723)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22709, accessed 10 July 2014]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – August 3, 1697
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Date: August 3, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 340-341
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Ray has sent Sloane’s plant specimens back to him.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – July 19, 1697
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Date: July 19, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 336-337
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Ray shares with Sloane his excitement about a young German doctor lately in Black Notley and Braintree who is very skilled in drawing insects.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – July 15, 1697
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Date: July 15, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 332
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Ray thanks Sloane for his provision of botanical works and requests more. He informs Sloane that he has returned some of the papers lent to him. Ray solicits Sloane’s botanical opinion on ‘Milium Indicum Arundiniceum’.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013])
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – July 12, 1697
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Date: July 12, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 330-331
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Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).