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Jean Rodolphe Lavater to Hans Sloane – June 18, 1705
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Date: June 18, 1705
Author: Jean Rodolphe Lavater
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 47-48
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Lavater sends the seeds he received from home. He discusses his garden and his search for a plant in Oxford. Lavater helped dissect a human body with a group of young doctors. He will visit London soon.
Jean Rodolphe Lavater was a Swiss physician and naturalist educated in Zurich. He travelled to England in 1704-05 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708 (‘Jean Rodolphe Lavater’, Library Collection, royalsociety.org).
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Richard Poley to Hans Sloane – December 17, 1726
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Date: December 17, 1726
Author: Richard Poley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 240
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Roley forwards a letter from Levinus Vincent. He suspects that it was written to thank Sloane for sending both volumes of his Natural History of Jamaica. Albertus Seba received both volumes as well. Seba gave Mr Finch ‘some Pomgranates and Water=Melons, which appear to be very good and are great Rarities here’.
Richard Poley (d. 1770) graduated B.A. from Queen’s College Cambridge in 1704. He was a Fellow of Queen’s College from 1717 to 1716. Poley was the Secretary to the British Envoy in Sweden from 1725 (http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27poley%27%29).
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Richard Poley to Hans Sloane – December 13, 1726
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Date: December 13, 1726
Author: Richard Poley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 237
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Poley received the two sets of Sloane’s Natural History of Jamaica. One is for Levinus Vincent, the other for Albertus Seba. Vincent’s books were taken to his house, but he was not in town. Poley has written to Seba in Amsterdam to find out where he would like them delivered.
Richard Poley (d. 1770) graduated B.A. from Queen’s College Cambridge in 1704. He was a Fellow of Queen’s College from 1717 to 1716. Poley was the Secretary to the British Envoy in Sweden from 1725 (http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27poley%27%29).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – June 20, 1726
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Date: June 20, 1726
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 168-169
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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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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – June 4, 1726
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Date: June 4, 1726
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 160-161
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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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Ezechiel de Spanheim to Hans Sloane – April 26, 1704
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Date: April 26, 1704
Author: Ezechiel de Spanheim
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 297-298
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De Spanheim thanks Sloane for sending the requested volumes. He asks Sloane’s opinion of them and to borrow more books by the same author.
Ezechiel de Spanheim (1629-1710) was born in Geneva and studied at the University of Leyden. He became Professor of Rhetoric in Geneva in 1650. He tutored Charles I Louis, Elector of Palatine’s son and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1679. As a diplomat he represented German states in Paris and London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel,_Freiherr_von_Spanheim).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – February 2, 1725
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Date: February 2, 1725
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 314
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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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Étienne François Geoffroy to Hans Sloane – September 7, 1700
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Date: September 7, 1700
Author: Étienne François Geoffroy
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 63-64
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Royal Society, Scientific, Travel
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Subjects
Botany, Geography, Meridian, Printing, Shells, Weather
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Date (as written)
September 7, 1700
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Paris
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Others mentioned
Edmond Halley Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Pierre Bonnet Bourdelot Abbe Louvois
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Patients mentioned
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Geoffroy consulted Bourdelot to answer Sloane’s questions. He believes Sloane’s catalogue should be annotated and bound with a copy of Vanderlinden’s Scriptis Medicis. Geoffroy will ask Dr Lefevre to do this for him. He was surprised by Halley’s meteorological reportage from the south. MM. Cassini, mathematicians Jean-Dominique Cassini and his son Jaccques Cassini, have left to measure the meridian from Paris to the Pyrenees. They send their best wishes. The shells that Sloane sent from England are surprising. This and other evidence suggest the earth was once covered in water. Geoffroy contemplates what would be covered should water levels rise again. He is preparing to leave for Italy with the Abbe de Louvois. He offers his services to Sloane and the Royal Society. Geoffroy promises to inform Sloane of any interesting observations. They have recently heard from Tournefort, who has sent drawings and descriptions of plants which Geoffroy will try to send before leaving.
Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672-1731) was an apothecary and physician who studied at Montpellier, like Sloane, and worked at the Jardin du Roi and College Royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Francois_Geoffroy).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – December 25, 1725
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Date: December 25, 1725
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 114-115
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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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Johann Philipp Breyne to Hans Sloane – December 22, 1725
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Date: December 22, 1725
Author: Johann Philipp Breyne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 110-111
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Material Culture, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Social
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Subjects
Amber, Books, Botany, Curiosities, Gardens, Jamaica, Natural History, Specimens
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Date (as written)
December 22, 1725
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Dantzig
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Others mentioned
James Petiver Richard Bradley
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Patients mentioned
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Breyne thanks Sloane for the letter and book, the second volume of the Natural History of Jamaica. He plans on sending Sloane some amber samples and other curiosities in the spring. Breyne discusses the portions of Sloane’s book he found interesting. He requests the recent editions of the Philosophical Transactions and ‘Mr Bradley’s Treatises of Succulent Plants’. He has sent a box to the Royal Society and hopes they find it useful. Breyne discusses English scholarship, mentioning Mr Petiver. He is trying to procure lilies for his ‘Botanick Garden’.
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).