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John Ray to Hans Sloane – July 7, 1697
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Date: July 7, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 328-329
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Ray thanks Sloane for the plant specimens and for answering his botanical questions.
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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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – June 1, 1697
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Date: June 1, 1697
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 317-318
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Charlett discusses the ongoing exchange of books between Sloane and himself. He thanks Sloane for sending the Philosophical Transactions.
Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 1 June 2011]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – May 12, 1697
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Date: May 12, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 312-313
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Ray informs Sloane that he is done reading through the papers. He has returned them, but would like any more that are pertinent to his research.
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 – October 20, 1696
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Date: October 20, 1696
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 270-271
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Ray discusses the botanical notes Sloane sent him and how they will inform his current work. He asks Sloane to review his ‘Paper concerning respiration’ before it is published.
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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Nehemiah Grew to Hans Sloane – April, 1697
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Date: April, 1697
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 309
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Grew asks Sloane to show the enclosed to the other members of the Royal Society. He explains that the last few lines are taken from Philosophical Transactions.
Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – April 27, 1697
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Date: April 27, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 307-308
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Ray thanks Sloane for his input into Ray’s Supplement and for the provision of plant specimens.
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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David Gregory to Hans Sloane – April 24, 1697
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Date: April 24, 1697
Author: David Gregory
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 305-306
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Gregory writes of the paper he authored for the Philosophical Transactions.
Gregory was a mathematician and astronomer who published the first astronomy textbook to integrate Newton’s gravitational theory (Anita Guerrini, Gregory, David (16591708), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11456, accessed 24 June 2013]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – April 13, 1697
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Date: April 13, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 302
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Ray thanks Sloane for his help and for lending him his papers. He asks that Sloane forward any more pertinent papers through Mr Smith.
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 – April 2, 1697
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Date: April 2, 1697
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 298
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Ray thanks Sloane for the specimens and sugar. Mr Smith provided Ray with ‘a large Dutch Herball of Abraham Montingues’ for his botanical work. However, the book ‘will be of little use to me, being written in Dutch’.
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 – March 22, 1696
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Date: March 22, 1696
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 296-297
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Ray thanks Sloane for his contributions to Ray’s Supplement. He has been working hard to finish the book because he would like to have some time to relax before he dies. Ray writes about publishing the book. Malpighi’s ‘posthumous pieces’ have been printed and are ‘in the Catalogue of Books printed for Hilary Term’.
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]).