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Samuel Haliday to Hans Sloane – June 5, 1716
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Date: June 5, 1716
Author: Samuel Haliday
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 168-169
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Haliday sends a book. He has come across several texts published in Italy that Sloane may want to purchase.
Haliday was a minister who studied in Glasgow and Leiden before being ordained in Geneva, Switzerland (A. D. G. Steers, Haliday , Samuel (16851739), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11930, accessed 28 June 2011]).
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William Cheselden to Hans Sloane – June 13, 1724
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Date: June 13, 1724
Author: William Cheselden
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 190
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Cheselden has sent the bearer, who carries a case history.
William Cheselden was a surgeon and anatomist. He made several contributions to the Philosophical Transactions, held appointments at St Thomas’s and St George’s hospitals in London, and participated in the affairs of the Barber-Surgeons’ Company (John Kirkup, Cheselden, William (16881752), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5226, accessed 1 Aug 2013]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – November 12, 1719
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Date: November 12, 1719
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 265
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Scholarship, Scientific
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Subjects
Books, Botany, Catalogues, Fossils, Italy, Plants, Specimens
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Date (as written)
November 12, 1719
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
Johann Philipp Breyne
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Patients mentioned
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Sherard forwards a packet of books from Breyne and some fossils from Tuscany with a catalogue. He requests figures of two plants, which he suspects are the same. They are: ‘Matricariae Acheocan dicta similis, Erysimitalys, Absinthis-sapora, Jamaicansis Pluk. Tab. 43. fig. 3.’ and the ‘Absinthium Indianum, fol. mardinatra Caumatis fl. albis, parvuis, umballatis… Amath. Tab. 352. fig. 2’.
Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – December 15, 1718
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Date: December 15, 1718
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 172-173
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Sherard informs Sloane that some of his friends would like to purchase books from Petiver’s collection, including: ‘Canturia[…] Gasophylacia[…] English plants[…] Cantuas and Gasaphy’. De Jussieu is one of the buyers.
Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).
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Mark Catesby to Hans Sloane – March 12, 1723/24
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Date: March 12, 1723/24
Author: Mark Catesby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 147
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Scientific, Travel
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Subjects
America, Amerindians, Animals, Birds, Cherokee, Entomology, Insects, Ornithology, Reptiles, Shells, Specimens
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Date (as written)
March 12, 1723/24
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Charles Town
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Others mentioned
Capt. Clark Capt. Rowe
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Patients mentioned
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[fol. 147]
Charles Town March 12 1723/4
Honble Sr.
I hope you have ere this received & Capt. Rowe (who sailed from hence the 10 of may last) a Box of fryed Birds, Shels, and Insects. Some which I have done my selfe the honour of writing ye Capt. Clark in ye Crowley Nov 14 last with 2 Books of dried plants. Concluding you have recd those by Capt Rowe I doe not repeat sending any of the same again. with one I sent before I now send 7 kinds of wood peckers which the kinds except one I have discovered in this Country
the Shells I now send are an entire collection of what I could ever discover or learn those Coasts afford and of the land and fresh water shels I sent ye Capt. Rowe are likewise all I have seen
I am at a loss to […] for want of hearing from you whether all kinds of Birds thus preserved will be acceptable to you or whether those only that are remarkable […] for colour or shape; however the Icons of all I hope to produce which will make no small addition to ye history of Birds
I shall Sr send you a Collection of Reptiles as soon as I can procure glasses to put them in
The names of ye Birds are
Six kinds of woodpeckers IIIIII
Jay
Blew Bird
Lark
Red winged Starling Acolchichi of Willingliby’s Appendix
To-whee ye black bird with red on ye brest
Head of an Oyster catcher
Head of ye round crested Mergus
I am now setting out for the Cherikees a Nation of Indians 300 miles from this place & who have lately declared War with another Nation which diverts them from inquireing us and gives me an opertunity of going with more safety. what particular commands you’l please to send me Shall be faithfully observed to ye best of my capacity by
Sr
Yr most Obedient Humble Servt
M Catesby
Mark Catesby was a naturalist, influenced by John Ray and Samuel Dale. In 1712 he went to Virginia and collected botanical specimens, gaining the attention of Dr Sherard and Sloane upon his return in 1719. In 1725 he explored the Bahamas and published his ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands’ a year later (F. Nigel Hepper, Catesby, Mark (16831749), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4882, accessed 23 July 2013]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – March 4, 1723/24
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Date: March 4, 1723/24
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 141-142
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[fol. 141]
Honrd Sr
The last weeke I was favoured with yr letter & by the returne of the Carier I received gesn: Epist: for wch & all other yr former civilitys I am very much obliged to yr Gesner & Cisalpinus are reputed by several to have been the first authors who reduced Botany to genus & species Cisalpinus I have read over & find nothing farther in […] of that kind then some discours hints as if he […] such a methode necessary & it is probable gesner in […] Epistles (which I have not as yet read over) many have […] the same but I do not find that either of them ever attempted it though they were the most learned men of their time medicins in the country were never worse then of present both simple & compound though at Bradford we are wel served. I have several times been obliged to send for [medicines] twenty miles & when they came none of the best. Certainly you can not undertake a weeke of greater thrice then clearing the […] medcins for which yu wil have the thanks of the […] through the whole nations that yu may enjoy a long health to do good to mankind is the hearty wish of.
your most obliged servant
Ric: Richardson
North Bierley
Mar: 4th 1723/24
Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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Samuel Morland to Hans Sloane – June 24, 1722
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Date: June 24, 1722
Author: Samuel Morland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 254-255
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Morland thanks Sloane and the Royal Society for electing him a Fellow. He writes that his father left him notes to compile a work ‘on the Generation of plants’, which he is constantly adding to. He uses his microscope daily and recently examined some pink seeds. He hopes that Sloane will read his plans for the treatise.
Morland was the nephew of Sir Samuel Morland, diplomat and natural philosopher (Alan Marshall, Morland, Sir Samuel, first baronet (16251695), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19282, accessed 1 Sept 2011]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – February 15, 1723/24
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Date: February 15, 1723/24
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 131-132
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[fol. 132]
Honrd Sr
On wednesday last I sent yu by John Houldsworth a pott of Woodcocks which I had intended to have done in November last, but the season at that time was so dry & warme that we had none at all came to us they have all the winter been very scarce here though in some parts of Lancashire & Westmorland which are nigh the sea I hear there has been prety plenty as an effect of the Warmenes of the season I had brought hither in Christmas a nest of Hedge Sparrow eggs & I have been credibly informed that about the same time there were young magpyes taken out of a nest at Gerstang in Craven This country at present is free from the small pox. I shall be glad to hear that the Box came to yu in good order I have nothing at all in Nat: History to put into it but if any thing of that kind come in any way you may be sure of an account of it with my hearty wishes for yr good health I am with all due respect
Your much obliged servant
Ric: Richardson
North Bierley
Feb: 15 1723/24
Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan to Hans Sloane – March 30, 1720
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Date: March 30, 1720
Author: Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 312-313
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Cadogan informs Sloane that he has been in Berlin for a week and will be leaving for Vienna on Thursday. If Sloane has any business he wants Cadogan to do for him in Paris he is to write to him in Vienna. He describes Berlin as ‘a large town, the streets broad, strait and well built. The Kings Palace is a noble structure […] without any garden’. The curiosities in the Palace are not comparable to Sloane’s collection. The ‘late King of Prussia’ was fond of his city and its amenities, which the current monarch passes on to his soldiers. Cadogan is enjoying himself in Berlin, and is regularly invited to ‘dine with the King; either at Court, or elswhere. The entertainment on these occasions are magnificent’.
Charles Cadogan (1685-1776), 2nd Baron Cadogan was the younger brother of William Cadogan, Earl Cadogan, who was an army officer and diplomat. Charles was an army officer, elected MP for Reading in 1716, and married Sir Hans Sloane’s daughter Elizabeth in 1717 (James Falkner, Cadogan, William, Earl Cadogan (1671/21726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4310, accessed 15 July 2013]).
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James Jurin to Hans Sloane – August 12, 1723
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Date: August 12, 1723
Author: James Jurin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 32
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Jurin received a copy Deidier’s tract on tumours from Woolhouse. He forwards it to Sloane, who is to comment on it. Deidier hopes for a recommendation from Sloane.
James Jurin was a physician and natural philosopher, elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1717. He served the latter as secretary from 1721 to 1727 and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions. He was a stalwart support of Newtonianism and collected meteorological data from contacts across the world (Andrea Rusnock, Jurin, James (bap. 1684, d. 1750), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15173, accessed 23 July 2013]).