Letter, from Charles Preston to Hans Sloane, dated at Edinburgh
Reference number: EL/P1/102
Date: 13 October 1698
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Concerning delivery of journals; that Mr Martin is due to return soon from the Western Isles of Scotland; concerning a man's blood containing maggots after blood-letting; that Sloane will have to wait for Preston's observations of the 'method of plants'; will send the catalogue of books of the late Sir James Balfour of Kinnaird
- Reference number
- EL/P1/102
- Earliest possible date
- 13 October 1698
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Charles Preston, Letter, from Charles Preston to Hans Sloane, dated at Edinburgh, 13 October 1698, EL/P1/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_102/letter-from-charles-preston-to-hans-sloane-dated-at-edinburgh, accessed on 22 January 2026
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