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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – May 22, 1731
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Date: May 22, 1731
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 236-237
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Social, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, Dissertations, Employment, Germany, Medicines
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Date (as written)
May 22, 1731
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Origin (as written)
Hannover
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Others mentioned
Mr Jager Mr Hales Mrs Steigertahl Wife
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Steigertahl received Sloane’s letter and the Philosophical Transactions. He read Mr Hales’ dissertation on the dissolution of stones. If the remedy can be made more effective it will be a boon for medical science. Mr Weidel sent a new book called ‘Institutiones juris natura et gentium methodo geometrica digesta’. A new domestic has started working for Mr Jäger, ‘l’Apoticaire de sa Majesté’. Steigertahl encloses everything that has come into his hands related to business from the ‘Messieurs les Medecins de Nuremburg’. Mrs Steigertahl sends her regards.
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).
Posted on January 31, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Lady Catherine Cavendish (1665-1712) was the daughter of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Frances Pierrepont. She married Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet in 1684, becoming Lady Thanet
Reference
Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, Volume 1 (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage Genealogical Books Ltd, 2003), page 1065).
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Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Lady Frederica Susanna Schomberg gained the title Countess of Holderness when she married Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness. In 1724 she married Hon. Benjamin Mildmay and her married name became Mildmay. Her titles included Countess FitzWalter and 3rd Countess of Mértola
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederica_Mildmay,_Countess_FitzWalter).
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Posted on August 2, 2016 by Emma Seeley -
Johann Philipp Breyne to Hans Sloane – August 20, 1732
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Date: August 20, 1732
Author: Johann Philipp Breyne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 166-167
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, Cabinet, Curiosities, Natural History
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Date (as written)
August 20, 1732
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August 20, 1732
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
Mark Catesby Richard Middleton Massey
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Breyne thanks Sloane for his letter and the books. He did not receive ‘ye forth Part of Mr Catesby’s Natural History’. Breyne is glad to hear that Sloane was pleased with his treatise. He requests that Sloane send him any duplicates in his ‘vast Collection of Naturall things’.
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) was a German botanist, zoologist, and entomologist known primarily for his work on the Polish cochineal, or Porphyrophora polonica, used in red dye production. He became a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Breyne).
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Lisa Smith -
L. J. Jacmin to Hans Sloane – September 16, 1732
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Date: September 16, 1732
Author: L. J. Jacmin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 182-183
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific
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Subjects
Academie des sciences, Anatomy, Autopsies, Botany, Manuscripts, Memoires de l'Academie, Opthalmology
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Date (as written)
September 16, 1732
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September 16, 1732
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Origin (as written)
à Hannover
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Others mentioned
Sebastien Vaillant John Thomas Woolhouse Jacob Benignus Winslow Mr Ludewig
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Jacmin’s botanical manuscript was written by hand. He admits that it is full of mistakes. Mr Vaillant has informed him of three new classes, which have been presented to l’Académie des sciences and printed in the Mémoires de l’académie. Jacmin discusses his plans for the text as well as botanical and anatomical scholarship, including the work of the ‘celebre Anatomiste Mr. Winslow à Paris’. Jacmin requests that Sloane and the Royal Society condescend to his level and accept his botanical manuscript. He can be reached at Mr Ludewig’s residence ‘à la Steinthor’.
L. J. Jacmin was a physician who performed an autopsy on a sexagenarian with cataracts. He removed the eye from the cadaver’s socket and cleansed it in water to satisfy his curiosity. The man took ‘la friction mercurielle’ three times during his youth. There was a crystalline substance thereon, which he believes is a ‘continuation de la Retine’. He suspects the condition has something to do with ‘l’humeur vitrée’. He compared his observations to those of the ‘ancien Maitre Mr. de Woolhouse et le Professeur Allemand Heister’, which were consistent with their descriptions of cataracts.
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Lisa Smith -
Browne Langrish to Hans Sloane – September 17, 1732
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Date: September 17, 1732
Author: Browne Langrish
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 184-185
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[fol. 184] Honour’d Sir, I am unwilling to give you the Trouble of sending my Manuscripts any where, & there fore have desired Mr Bettesworth, a Bookseller in Pater noster Row, to send his servant to you for it. I will take Case to add Mr Cowper’s Experiment with Those I have lately made on the Aorta, & I flatter my self, when I have carefully revised & corrected my work, & added what I have farther to say on the Nature of Attraction & Repulsion, my Theory of muscular Motion will be illustrated so as to make it appear consistent with the known Laws of Nature, & the animal Oeconomy. I hope, Sir, when Dr Croon’s Lecture is fixt, you will be so kind as to let me know whether I can read it or not. I am, Sir, yr most Obedient & most humble servant Browne Langrish Petersfield Septr ye 17th 1732
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Lisa Smith -
Magnus Prince to Hans Sloane – October 2, 1732
Item info
Date: October 2, 1732
Author: Magnus Prince
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 192
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Mail, Patronage, Social, Specimens
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Subjects
Geology, Inoculation, Ireland, Post, Rocks, Smallpox, blue earth
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Date (as written)
October 2, 1732
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Standardised date
October 2, 1732
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Origin (as written)
Belfast
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Others mentioned
Mrs Hamilton Mrs Elsmere Magnus Prince's Nephew
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[fol. 192] Sr I had the pleasure of your favour the 28th of Septr, dates the 7th, the packets being detaind by contrary winds, I should be very unworthy, if I had not a gratefull sense of your kindness to my Nephew & the pains you have been at to provide for him. But I should hardly have prevaild with myself to give you so much trouble upon so slender acquaintance, but that the character I had of your benevolence, & the great concern I had for so near a relation in distress, not by his own fault, pusht me on to be so forward, I wish heartyly for an opportunity to convince you that I am not unmindfull of the obligation, I ly under. I have given directions for getting a parcell of the blew earth, to one who hes undertaken to provide it for me, I have not heard of the small pox any where since my last to you, when any are inoculated you shall have the whole process, with my method of treating them, which I take to be something out of the common road. I give my humble respects & sincere good wishes to Mrs Elsmere. & will rejoyce at any good befalls her, I hope soon to Joyne in a letter to her with Mrs Hamilton I am Your most obedient & most obliged servant Magnus Prince Belfast 2d Octr 1732
Magnus Prince was a physician.
Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford was born on 25 May 1708. He was the son of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford and Elizabeth Howland. He was baptised on 15 June 1708 at Streatham, Surrey, England. He married Lady Anne Egerton, daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgwater and LadyElizabeth Churchill, on 22 April 1725 at Ashbridge, Buckinghamshire, England. He died on 23 October 1732 at age 24 at Corunna, Spain, without issue.1 He was buried on 14 December 1732 at Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England. His will was proven (by probate) in December 1732.
He succeeded to the title of 8th Baron Russell [E., 1539] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 7th Earl of Bedford [E., 1550] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Marquess of Tavistock [E., 1694] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Duke of Bedford [E., 1694] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 5th Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, co. Northampton [E., 1603] on 26 May 1711. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Howland of Streatham, Surrey [E., 1695] on 26 May 1711.
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- S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 82.
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Thomas Tufton, the 6th Earl of Thanet, (1644-1729) was a nobleman and politician. He served as Captain of the Troop of Horse, Member of Parliament for Appelby from 1668 to 1679, and was eventually invested as a Privy Councillor in 1702. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland from 1712 to 1714.
Reference:
G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, (eds), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 297.
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Posted on February 7, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Jemima de Grey, née Crew, Duchess of Kent and her daughter Lady Jemima Grey, 1705, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Credit: National Heritage, Wrest Park – Silsoe.
Jemima (nee) Crew (1675-1728) married Henry Grey, 1st and last Duke of Kent, in 1695. Her parents were Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew of Stene, and Anne Armyne.
Reference
‘Hon. Jemima Crew’, The Peerage, http://thepeerage.com/p1408.htm#i14078 (accessed 7 February 2017).
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