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Authorised form of nameSloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector
Dates1660 - 1753
Place of birthKillyleagh or White's Castle, County Down, Ireland, Europe
Date of birth16 April 1660
Place of deathChelsea, London, England, Europe
Date of death11 January 1753
Dates and placesBurial:
Chelsea Old Church, London, England, Europe (18 January 1753)
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldMedicine
Natural history
Botany
ActivityEducation:
Killyleagh school; when removed from school due to poor health continued education supported by the Hamilton Family of Killyleagh Castle; studied medicine at Apothecaries Hall, London (1679-1883); Pupil of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, at the Jardin Royal, Paris and Montpellier (1683-1684); University of Orange (MD 1683); University of Oxford (DMed, by diploma 1701)
Career:
Went to Jamaica as personal physician to the 2nd Duke of Albemarle, Governor of Jamaica, where he worked as a doctor on slave plantations whilst collecting over 800 botanical specimens and other items of natural history with the assistance of planters and enslaved Africans (1687-1689); practised medicine in Bloomsbury, Middlesex (1689-1741); published multiple papers on his observations in Jamaica (1680s); Physician, Christ's Hospital (1694-1730); carried out the autopsy of Samuel Pepys PRS (1703); purchased the manor of Chelsea, Middlesex (1712); physician to Queen Anne and George I (1712-1727); Physician to the Army (1714); first British physician to receive a baronetcy (1716); founded the Botanic Garden at Chelsea on behalf of the Society of Apothecaries (1721); First Physician to George II (1727); experimented with inoculation of smallpox inoculating the children of the Princess of Wales; also advocated the use of quinine in treatment of malaria and eye ailments; one of the promoters of the colony of Georgia (1732); a founding governor of London's Foundling Hospital (1739), retired from general practice (1741); benefactor to Christ's Hospital and the Bodleian Library and to many other individuals and institutions; bequeathed his collection to King and Parliament in return for a payment of £20,000 to his heirs (his collection was estimated to have cost him £100,000). The bequest was accepted and on 7 June 1753 the British Museum act became law, establishing the first national museum freely open to the public, the Sloane collections forming the nucleus of the British Museum (around 200,000 specimens)
Honours:
Bt 1716
Memberships:
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1687, President 1719-1735)
Foreign Member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1712)
Member of the Academy of Science of St Petersburg and of Madrid (1735)
Member of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen (1752)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/01/1685
Age at election24
ProposerMartin Lister
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1690-1699; Secretary 1693-1713; PRS 1727-1741; VP 1703-1704, 1704-?, 1715-?, 1722-? ; Editor Phil. Trans.: 1696-1713
Committee and panels:
Committee to inspect the Books and Papers of the Society (1692)
Other Royal Society activityCommissioned a variety of experiments and observations, e.g. in the field of natural history; Presented papers and collected specimens to the Society, e.g. Jamaican pepper tree; Listed as a principal benefactor with donation of £100 (1710); As secretary and subsequent editor of the 'Philosophical Transactions', Sloane was instrumental in revitalising the publication and his wide network of correspondents contributed to communication published in the 'Transactions'. During this time, he was also involved in a somewhat public feud with John Woodward (FRS 1693), who disagreed with Sloane's administrative style and qualification and insulted him during a presentation of a pa
RelationshipsParents: Alexander Sloane and Sarah Hicks
Married: Elizabeth Rose (née Langley)
Children: Mary Sloane; Sarah Stanley (née Sloane); Elizabeth Cadogan (née Sloane); Hans Sloane
Additional relatives: son-in-law Charles Cadogan (FRS 1718), step-son-in-law Thomas Isted (FRS 1698); grandson Rose Fuller (FRS 1732); nephew William Sloane (FRS 1722)
Published worksRCN: R63795
RCN: R63796
RCN: R63794
General contextAs a protestant, Sloane was not permitted to take his degree at Paris or Montpellier where he studied. He took his degree as Doctor of Physic at the University of Orange, near Avignon in Provence, on July 28th 1683.

During his chemistry studies at the Apothecaries' Hall, Sloane struck up life-long friendships with John Ray (FRS 1667) and Robert Boyle (FRS 1660). After returning to London, Sloane became a protégé of sorts to Thomas Sydenham at whose address he likely practiced for a time. Later in life, he was a close acquaintance of James Petiver (FRS 1695), who went on to develop one of the largest natural history correspondences. Through his connections and placement in London at the quasi-hub of scientific correspondence in the growing British empire, Sloane made use of the machinery of empire to expand his collecting activities and contribute to the Society's network of correspondents. The nomenclature and systemisation present in Sloane's plant catalogue of Jamaica was considered a valuable contribution to the field of botany and natural history, only later superseded by Linneaus' system. At the end of his life, his collections encompassed, amongst others, objects from Ghana, drawings attributed to Albrecht Dürer, and manuscripts from Sir Robert Cotton's estate. He is also credited with introducing to England a recipe for 'health-giving' drinking chocolate with milk, which was widespread in Jamaica and one of many recipes in circulation at the time.

Sloane's wide-ranging collecting was funded, alongside his medical practice, by profits from sugar plantations in Jamaica. His wife Elizabeth was the co-heir of John Langley, a plantation owner and enslaver. Furthermore, Sloane made use of enslaved people's knowledge of the island's flora and fauna for his collections, though he rarely credited them as collectors. Sloane invested these profits and held shares in the East India Company, the South Sea Company, and the Royal African Company, mercantile companies directly involved in the trade of enslaved people.

The RAC was a British trading company established by Royal Charter in 1660 which enslaved and sold African people. The company was chartered by Charles II, the founding royal Patron of the Royal Society, which was also chartered in 1660. The RAC held a monopoly on English trade on the west coast of Africa. The principal interest of the company was originally gold and secondarily other natural resources. The Company's second charter in 1663 mentions trade in enslaved people, who were mainly sold into slavery on British owned estates in the West Indies and America. The Jesus College Cambridge Legacy of Slavery Working Party has stated that the RAC was responsible for selling more Africans into slavery in America than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, and that they ran a brutal regime with the full knowledge of their investors.

The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt. To generate income, in 1713 the company was granted a monopoly (the Asiento) to supply enslaved Africans to the islands in the 'South Seas' and South America. Company stock rose greatly in value as it expanded its operations dealing in government debt, and peaked in 1720 before suddenly collapsing to little above its original flotation price. The notorious economic bubble thus created, which ruined thousands of investors, became known as the South Sea Bubble. The Company survived and between 1715 and 1731 profited from the sale of over 60,000 enslaved Africans.

The Honorable East India Company (HEIC) was an English and later British company formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent (and briefly Afghanistan) and colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies, by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, the East India Company rose to account for half of the world's trade, thereby amassing vast wealth, influence and private armies. The East India company enslaved people and exploited them for labour across their territories from 1621 until abolition of slavery in India in 1843. The company ruled large areas of India with its private armies, exercising military power and seizing administrative functions from local rulers from around 1757 until the British Raj which replaced HEIC control with direct colonial rule of India by the British Government in 1858. Under the HEIC and later colonial governance the British systematically oppressed indigenous people and exploited natural resources of colonised regions for commercial gain. The Company was dissolved in 1874.
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; GEC Baronetage; Hunter; Foster; Irish Innovators; ODNB
Delbourgo, J. 2017. 'Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane' (Allen Lane)
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Notes:
A large part of Sloane's correspondence is held at the British Library, with letters being transcribed and described by the Sloane Letters Project [https://sloaneletters.com/; last accessed 23/02/2022]
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/77959
Royal Society codeNA8406
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EL/B3/18Letter, from Robert Browne to Hans Sloanend
EL/S2/81Account of the baths at Baden by John James [Johann Jakob] Scheuchzer to Hans Sloanend
M/202Sloane, Sir Hans 1744
RBO/15/64Hans Sloane's answer to Brown's letter about the mechanical causes of gravity1731
MM/4/49Letter from Owen Brigstocke, Carmarthen, to Sir Hans Sloane12 October 1731
RBO/16/28'An account of an Experiment on Light and colours' communicated in a letter to Sir Hans Sloane by Marten Triewald1731
RBO/17/65'Physico-medical observations on the latter part of the 1729 to the beginning of 1730 in a letter from Dr Scheuchzer to Hans Sloanend
L&P/1/360Letter, 'Refers to the death of Sir H Sloane and to a meeting with Lieberkuhn' from Gasparo Cerati to Cromwell Mortimer1 January 1745
L&P/1/212Letter, 'Of a hen bringing up puppies' from John Fuller to Hans Sloane5 May 1743
EL/F2/37Extract of a letter, from Rose Fuller to Hans Sloane, dated at Spanish Town1736
EL/S2/94Letter, from Hans Sloane to Job Basternd
EL/G1/55Letter, from Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane, dated at Canterbury28 August 1700
EL/S2/75Translation of a letter, from Albertus Seba to Hans Sloane and the Royal Society1731
EL/M2/14Letter, from John Monro to Hans Sloane, dated at Rome17 April 1700
EL/M2/15Letter, from John Monro to Hans Sloane, dated at Marseilles22 August 1700
MM/4/55Letter from Phillip Peck, London, to Sir Hans Sloane9 October 1738
MM/4/57Letter from Phillip Peck, London, to Sir Hans Sloane15 January 1738/9
IM/004221Sloane, Sir Hansnd
MM/4/56Letter from Phillip Peck, London, to Sir Hans Sloane14 October 1738
L&P/1/3Letter from Pierre de Vigny to Hans Sloane04 October 1741
EL/T/71Extract of a letter, from Brooke Taylor to Hans Sloane1712
L&P/1/168Letter, 'Minerals the latter insects' from Jean Jallabert and Charles Bonnet to Hans Sloane4 June 1742
MM/15/35"A List of Minerals given to the Royal Society on Febry 18 1685/6 by Dr (now Sir Hans) Sloane Bart, President etc" 17th century
EL/M1/120Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane1713
EL/M2/17Letter, from [Martin] Martin to Hans Sloane16 January 1700
RBO/17/38Concerning the effects of cold by John James Scheuchzer from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane1731
EL/P1/106Letter, from Reverend Abraham de la Pryme to Hans Sloane, dated at Hull14 September 1700
EL/L4/26Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft10 September 1709
EL/M1/119Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane4 September 1713
MM/4/63Letter from Mary Hauksbee to Sir Hans Sloane30 March 1731
EL/S2/55aExtract of a letter, from Thomas Short to Hans Sloane, dated at Sheffield11 June 1731
EL/I2/15Translation of a letter, from Antoine de Jussieu to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1736
EL/H3/86Letter, from Philip Jacob Hartman to Hans Sloane29 September 1699
L&P/1/13Letter, on a map of the country about Paris from Jean de La Grive to Hans Sloane[1741]
RBO/8/64'Account of Boring for Rock Salt at Crowley in Cheshire in a letter from Thomas Brotherton to Hans Sloane'1699
L&P/1/21Letter from Hans Sloane to Martin Folkes07 December 1741
EL/W2/61Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford17 May 1697
RBO/8/21Account of the use of 'Hipecacuana', a root growing in Brazil, by Hans Sloane1697
EL/H3/78Letter, from George Handisyd to Hans Sloane, dated at Grand Canaria on board the 'Modena'25 April 1692
RBO/17/71Experiments with ambergris for Hans Sloane by Ambrose Godfrey Hanckewitz, chemist1731
MM/10/10Deed transferring £392.17.1 of South Sea stock from Sir Godfrey Copley's estate to Mary Copley and Jasper Blythman8 September 1721
RBO/14/100'Examen and observations of a bituminous Earth for the Royal Society' given to Sir Hans Sloane by Mr Godfrey1729
RBO/14/37'Observations on the Weather in a Letter from R Bradley to Sir Hans Sloane'1728
RBO/15/62'Account of a Water Fowl deem'd by the Author a Nondescript' from Caleb Lowdham to Hans Sloane1731
RBO/14/72Observations of the lunar eclipse on 9 August 1729 at Witteberg from J F Weidler to Hans Sloane1729
RBO/14/1'Observations on the difference of Sex in Misleto [mistletoe]', in a letter from the Reverend M Edmund Barrel to Sir Hans Sloane1728
RBO/14/38'An Observation of the Digestion of food in the Stomach with Animadversions thereon, by Christopher Wolfius, in a Letter to Sir Hans Sloane'1728
RBO/17/28Account of the method of determining the properties of mineral waters together with a catalogue of fossils by Thomas Short to Hans Sloane1732
MM/11/58Copy of the probate of the Will of Godfrey Copley14 October 1704
RBO/14/60Observations of Venus communicated in a letter to Hans Sloane by William Derham, Canon of Windsor1729
MM/11/57Copy of the probate of the Will of Godfrey Copley14 October 1704
RBO/14/121'A particular Description of the Kingdom of Tunis' in letters to Sir Hans Sloane by Reverend Thomas Shaw 1730
RBO/17/2Concerning John James Scheuchzer's book on the history of plants to Hans Sloane1731
RBO/18/19'Account of the cure of the Gout by Oils externally apply'd with an hypothesis on the cause of the Distemper conformable to this Practice' by Willilam Stukeley in his letter to Hans Sloane1732
RBO/17/63Concerning a 'mola vesiculosae' in the omasum of an ox by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane 1732
RBO/17/37On the thermal qualities of the waters at Baden by John James Scheuchzer from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane 1731
RBO/16/24Recommending the Duke of Lorraine and Count Kingski to the Royal Society by the Duke of Richmond in his letter to Sir Hans Sloane 1731
RBO/18/24'A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1731: pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1732
RBO/14/7'A Description of some uncommon Appearances observ'd in an Aurora borealis' by Reverend William Derham, canon of Windsor communicated in a letter to Hans Sloane1728
RBO/14/111'An account of the Imperial Salt works of Soowar in upper hungary translated from the high Dutch of Ernest Bruchman of the Academy of Brunswick' by Hans Sloane1729
MM/4/50Draft of a letter from Sir Hans Sloane to Owen Brigstocke4 July 1731
MM/19/27Letter from Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society, to William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society20 July 1861
RBO/17/53Account of an earthquake in Switzerland in 1729 by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane 1731
RBO/8/48Letter from Thomas Luffkin to Hans Sloane concerning the application of pneumatics to cupping glasses1699
RBO/21/47'A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1737: pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1738
RBO/7/121Letter to Dr Sloane giving an account of the Double Pear' by Musgravend
RBO/15/29Observations of travels from Hamamet to Agar by Thomas Shaw in his letter to Hans Sloane1730
RSL/1/4Letter from Thomas Atkinson, Ballyshannon, to Sir Hans Sloane5 July 1777
RSL/1/3Letter from Thomas Atkinson, Ballyshannon, to Sir Hans Sloane28 June 1777
EL/T/75Letter, from William Thinn to Hans Sloane, dated at Nottingham9 August 1727
IM/004222Sloane, Sir Hansnd
EL/F2/4Letter, from John Freind to Hans Sloanec 1700
NLB/6/728Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to G H Wallis4 July 1892
NLB/17/486Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W R Deighton, 4 and 3a Grand Hotel Buildings, Trafalgar Square, W.C. 8 November 1898
L&P/1/148Letter, 'A mathematical treatise' by Gerard Meerman to Hans Sloane20 November 1742
EL/K/37Translation of a letter, from James Theodorus Klein to Hans Sloane1733
RBO/14/93'A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden presented to the Royal Society by the company of Apothecaries for the year 1728 pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1729
EL/D1/45Letter, from John Davys to Hans Sloane19 February 1699
L&P/3/113Paper, 'An account of inoculations, by Hans Sloane, prepared in 1739' by Hans Sloane1756
L&P/2/129Letter, 'Carte trinagulaire de la France [Trinitarian map of France]' from Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury to Hans Sloane25 March 1750
EL/B2/70Letter, from Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane, dated at Boston31 December 1721
L&P/1/240Letter, 'With a medical book' from Pierre Guisard to Hans Sloane12 June 1743
L&P/1/241Letter, 'On account of a monstrous child; of a omoplate bone from Brazil; of the tarantula; of the camphor tree' from Claude Geoffrey to Hans Sloane30 June 1743
L&P/1/226Letter, 'Of fossil nuts' from C J Geoffrey to Hans Sloane21 August 1743
L&P/1/170Letter, 'With a copy of the Storia Botanica of their grandfather Giacomo Zanoni' from the Zanoni brothers to Hans Sloane12 December 1742
L&P/1/142Letter, 'Of certain anatomical observations' from Job Baster to Hans Sloane1742
L&P/1/350Letter, 'On the libella' from Peter Collinson to Hans Sloane23 June 1744
L&P/2/147/1Paper, 'Exhibition, through Dr C Mortimer, of certain bezoar and other stones' by Hans Sloane14 June 1750
L&P/3/318Letter, 'Of saltpetre' from Alexander Orme to Hans Sloane29 January 1737
CLP/23i/46Letter, from Dr Dover to Hans Sloane20 April 1724
CLP/1/40Letter, regarding arithmetic tables from unknown author to [Hans Sloane]9 December 1731
EL/B3/11Letter, from James Bradley to Hans Sloane12 February 1728
EL/V/49Letter, from Du Verger Gallo to Hans Sloane, dated at Rome1700
EL/C2/35Letter, from James Cunningham to Hans Sloane, dated at the Cape of Good Hope6 April 1700
EL/S2/78Postscript of a letter, from Dr [Johann Georg] Steigertahl to Hans Sloane1735
EL/F2/18Letter, from John Freke to Hans Sloane1733
EL/G1/57Letter, from Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane, dated at Canterbury5 February 1705
RBO/14/44'Observations of a Lunar Eclipse' in a letter from William Derham to Hans Sloane1728
DM/5/101A list of benefactors to the Museum, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time c.1737
IM/004220Sloane, Sir Hansnd
RBO/17/50Glacial dendrites by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane 1731
EL/R2/46Letter, from Monsieur [Rene Antoine Ferchault] de Reaumur to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1737
EL/S2/59Extract of a letter, from Albert Seta to Hans Sloanend
EL/R2/51Translation of a letter, from Monsieur [Jean-Philippe] Rameau to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1737
EL/T/66Letter, from W[illiam] E[rnest] Tenzelius to Hans Sloane9 December 1699
EL/M1/116Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane, dated at Exeter17 December 1712
EL/G2/14Letter from, Ambrose Godfrey [Hanckewitz] to Hans Sloane1720s
RBO/15/12'Of the charming and poison of Rattle Snakes by Hans Sloane'1730
EL/L6/3Letter, from John Lawson to Hans SloaneJune 1695
RBO/9/72'The Anatomy of the Seal and Porpess' by Patrick Blair in a letter to Hans Sloane1708
MM/4/53Draft of a letter from Sir Hans Sloane, London, to Benjamin Holloway12 November 1731
RBO/17/40Observations of an aurora borealis by John James Scheuchzer from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane 1731
DM/5/100A list of benefactors to the Library, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time c.1737
LBO/24/119Copy letter from John Fuller Junior to the President [Sir Hans Sloane]23 May 1738
EL/N1/64Copy of a letter, from Isaac Newton, Hans Sloane, Richard Mead, Edmond Halley, and Abraham Hill to John Flamsteed, dated at Crane Court1712
EL/B3/34Extract of a letter, from Abbe Jean Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane16 April 1733
L&P/1/20Letter from Hans Sloane to the Royal Society[1741]
EL/S2/25Letter, from A Spes to Hans Sloane, dated at Chelmsford18 March 1699
EL/R1/50Letter, from A Rawdon to Hans Sloane19 September 1694
EL/M3/66Letter, from Joseph Morgan to Hans Sloane, dated at Maidenhead, New Jersey1739
L&P/1/225Letter, 'On the Society for Experimental Philosophy' from Johann Theodor Klein to Hans Sloane26 February 1743
EL/G2/17Letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris18 January 1734
RBO/15/25'An Essay towards the present State of Algiers by the Reverend Mr Thomas Shaw in a Letter to Sir Hans Sloane'1730
MS/557/2/2Secretarial notes of Royal Society meetings by Hans Sloane and others, 1693-981 November 1693-5 August 1696 and 22 November 1693-16 February 1698
DM/5/114List of benefactors to the Royal Society 17th-18th century
EL/L2/54Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloanend
CLP/9i/55Letter, 'Account of boreing for rock salt, at Crowley in Cheshire' from Thomas Brotherton to Hans Sloane14 September 1699
MS/557/2/3Secretarial notes of Royal Society meetings by Hans Sloane and others, 1699-170222 February 1699-14 October 1702
MS/557/2/5Secretarial notes of Royal Society meetings by Hans Sloane and others, 1708-1111 February 1708-29 March 1711
CLP/11ii/14Paper, 'Examen and observations of a bituminous earth' by Sir Hans Sloane[1729]
CLP/8i/54Letter, regarding a theory to improve astronomy from unknown author to Hans Sloane7 January 1697
CLP/10i/30Paper, 'On the coffee shrub' by Hans Sloane[1694]
CLP/9i/73Extract, English translation of 'An account of the imperial saltworks of Soowar in Upper Hungary translated from the High Dutch of Ernest Bruckman of the Academy of Brunswick' by unknown author[1729]
EL/S2/37Letter, from Frederick Slare to Hans Sloane, dated at Bath10 February 1714
RBO/8/22Some notes on the foregoing paper on the medicinal properties of a root from Brazil by Hans Sloanend
CLP/10i/29Paper, 'An account of two plants lately brought from the Cape of Good Hope' by unknown author[1692]
CLP/10i/28/2Plate, 'Myrtus arborea, folys laurinis, aromatica. Pimienta or Iamaica-pepper tree' by unknown artist[1690]
CLP/10i/28/1Manuscript, 'A description of the pimiento or Jamaica pepper tree and of the tree that bears the cortex winteranus' by Hans Sloane[1690]
CLP/9i/72Extract, 'Seconde relation de Dr Ernest Brukmann, docteur en medecine, de l'Academie de Brunswik, de son voyage d'Allemagne et Hongri: des salines imperiales de Soowar dans la haute Hongrie' by unknown authorDecember 1724
CLP/10i/51Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants, from Chelsea-Garden etc. for the year 1725' by [Isaac Rand]1725
CLP/10i/28Paper, 'A description of the pimiento or Jamaica pepper tree and of the tree that bears the cortex winteranus' by Hans Sloane[1690]
CLP/10i/58Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants, from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1733, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1734
CLP/10ii/7Paper, 'Preparatie von anatomischen vegetabilien' by Albert [Albertus] Seba[1728]
CLP/11ii/23Paper, 'Experiments made upon ambergris for Hans Sloane' by [Cromwell Mortimer?][1731]
CLP/10i/56Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1731; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1732
EL/S2/95Copy of a letter, from Hans Sloane to Job Baster1737
CLP/12ii/58/2Engraving, 'Calculus è vesica cadaverus extractus' by J Michel Genevensis1732
L&P/2/147Paper, 'Exhibition, through Dr C Mortimer, of certain bezoar and other stones' by Hans Sloane14 June 1750
EL/L5/111Letter, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Hans Sloane8 September 1700
EL/H4/32Extract of a letter, from John Henry de Heucher to Hans Sloane, dated at Warsaw7 May 1732
EL/C3/47Two translated letters from Cuentz, dated at Neuschatel, to Hans Sloane1740
EL/S2/26Letter, from Pierre Silvestre to Hans Sloane, dated at Berne6 April 1700
EL/P1/114Letter, from Mr Pulteney to Hans Sloane, dated at Copenhagen5 February 1715
EL/M3/47Translation of a letter, from Monsieur [René Antoine Ferchault] de Reaumur to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1738
EL/B3/63Extract of a letter, from Burnet to Hans Sloane, dated at Madrid11 October 1737
EL/W3/68Letter, from Richard Waller to Hans Sloane4 December 1699
EL/S2/82Extract of a letter, from John Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane1730
EL/S2/87Extract of a letter, from John Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane1730
EL/S2/83Account of three earthquakes which happened in Switzerland in the years 1728 and 1729 by Dr [Johann Jakob] Scheuchzer to Hans Sloanend
EL/M3/41Translation of a letter, from Monsieur Morand to Hans Sloane1738
EL/M3/37Letter, from Joseph Morgan to Hans Sloane, dated at Maidenhead, New Jersey1739
EL/L6/5Letter, from Thomas Luffkin to Hans Sloane16 October 1699
EL/S2/18Extract of a letter, from Hans Sloane to Mr Sheldrake14 January 1734
EL/M3/7Letter, from de Mairau to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris18 December 1733
EL/D2/41Translation of an extract of a letter, from Thomas Dereham to Hans Sloane1731
EL/C3/41Letter, from Joseph de Seytres to Hans Sloane, dated at Avignon8 January 1740
EL/H3/90Letter, from Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford25 January 1710
EL/S2/12Letter, from Hans Sloane to Richard Waller1692
EL/S2/39Letter, from John Stirling to Hans Sloane, dated at Glasgow8 June 1713
EL/S2/86Letter, from John Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane1730
EL/H4/16Letter, from [Henri Louis] du Hamel de Monceau to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris25 March 1735
EL/D2/48Letter, from Arthur Downes to Hans Sloane, dated at Cranbrook1724
EL/I2/23Translation of a letter, from Jacobe to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1736
EL/P2/2Letter, from J Purcell to Hans Sloane, dated at Weston near Ounly in Buckinghamshire5 September 1725
EL/M2/85Letter, from J[oseph Private] de Molieres to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris20 April 1734
EL/T/87Letter, from Christopher Jacob Trew to Hans Sloane, dated at Nuremburg26 March 1732
EL/G2/12Letter, from Hieronymus Giuntini to Hans Sloane, dated at Florence23 December 1730
EL/L3/37Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft6 December 1701
EL/S2/20Letter, from Edward Southwell to Hans Sloane13 December 1697
EL/W3/69Letter, from Richard Waller to Hans Sloane4 March 1699
EL/M3/40Letter, from Joseph Morgan to Hans SloaneAugust 1732
EL/M1/113Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane, dated at Exeter28 December 1699
EL/C3/34Translation of a letter, from Andreas Celsius to Hans Sloane, dated at Tornea4 December 1736
EL/M1/115Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane, dated at Exeter10 November 1712
EL/S2/17Letter, from Hans Sloane to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek13 October 1713
EL/E/14Translation of a letter from Balthasar Ehrhart to Hans Sloane1735
EL/W3/70Letter, from Richard Waller to Hans Sloane5 October 1707
EL/M3/12Letter, from Joseph Morgan to Hans Sloane, dated at Maidenhead, New Jersey3 July 1734
EL/M3/62Letter, from E. R. to Hans Sloanend
EL/M3/39aLetter, from Joseph Morgan to Hans Sloane1732
EL/H3/52Letter, from Edmond Halley to Hans Sloane, dated at Chester25 October 1697
EL/L3/26Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft28 January 1701
EL/P1/104Letter, from Charles Preston to Hans Sloane, dated at Edinburgh1 February 1700
EL/G1/51Letter, from Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane, dated at Canterbury2 May 1698
EL/L3/22Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1700
EL/G1/69Letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris10 June 1699
EL/L3/53Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft3 November 1703
EL/T/76Letter, from William Thinn to Hans Sloane, dated at Mansfield16 October 1727
EL/M3/34Translated extract of a letter, from Paul Henry Gerard Moehring to Hans Sloane1739
EL/M2/86Translation of a letter, from J[oseph Private] de Molieres to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1736
EL/M2/62Letter, from Pietro Michelotti to Hans Sloane, dated at Venice22 March 1731
EL/I2/17Translation of a letter, from Bernard de Jussieu to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1736
EL/S2/24Letter, from W Sherard to Hans Sloane, dated at Rome24 January 1699
EL/S2/36Letter, from Frederick Slare to Hans Sloane, dated at Bath15 June 1713
EL/L3/16Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1700
EL/F1/130Paper, proposal for 'Historia Brittannica Coelestis' by John Flamsteed to Hans Sloanend
EL/H3/93Letter, from John Hargreaves to Hans Sloane, dated at Colne in Lancashire11 May 1713
EL/S2/76Letter, from Philip Stubbs to Hans Sloane, dated at the Royal Hospital Greenwich25 January 1733
EL/S2/40Letter, from Frederick Slare to Hans Sloanend
EL/L4/51Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft12 October 1713
EL/M1/117Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane, dated at Exeter2 March 1713
EL/S1/23Letter, from Robert Southwell to Hans Sloane, dated at King's Weston13 October 1697
EL/S2/100Translation of a letter, from John Philip Seip to Hans Sloane, dated at Pyrmont1736
EL/C3/42Copy of a letter, from Joseph de Seytres to Hans Sloane, dated at Avignon1732
EL/C3/40Translation of a letter, from Nicolo Albero d'Aragona to Hans Sloane, dated at Naples27 November 1738
EL/M3/56Letter, from Pietro Michelotti to Hans SloaneJanuary 1734
EL/I2/24Translation of an extract of a letter, from Jallabert to Hans Sloanend
EL/B3/35Extract of a letter, from Abbe Jean Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris8 December 1734
EL/W2/82Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford1 February 1699
EL/D1/48Letter, from William Derham to Hans Sloane, dated at Upminster1698
EL/P1/94Letter, from Denis Papin to Hans Sloane23 January 1712
EL/M1/111Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane, dated at Exeter4 June 1698
EL/G1/43Letter, from George Garden to Hans Sloane, dated at Aberdeen10 October 1698
EL/H3/50Letter, from Edmond Halley to Hans Sloane, dated at Chester Mint2 November 1696
EL/I2/16Translation of a letter, from Antoine de Jussieu to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1736
EL/G1/70Letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris9 September 1699
EL/M1/52Letter, from Lorenzo Magalotti to Hans Sloane, dated at Florence16 July 1709
EL/B2/74Letter, from Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane, dated at Boston12 April 1727
EL/T/60Letter, from Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane, dated at Leeds3 November 1711
EL/W2/66Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford11 May 1700
EL/L3/34Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1701
EL/S2/19Letter, from Hans Sloane to Lady Essex [Elizabeth Capell]23 March 1734
EL/S2/11Letter, from Hans Sloane to Dr [Domenico] Bottonind
EL/S2/31Letter, from Hans Sloane to John Flamsteed , dated at Crane Court5 March 1713
EL/R2/41Extract of a letter, from Monsieur [Rene Antoine Ferchault] de Reaumur to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1734
EL/S2/35Letter, from Edward Southwell to Hans Sloane, dated at Dublin31 July 1711
EL/P1/105Letter, from Reverend Abraham de la Pryme to Hans Sloane, dated at Hull2 August 1700
EL/W3/158Letter, from Paul Gottlieb Werlhof to Hans Sloane, dated at Hanover11 July 1733
EL/S2/90Letter, from Brand Henry Schilden to Hans Sloane, dated at Hanover5 November 1735
EL/L5/110Letter, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Hans Sloane, dated at Hanover1700
EL/W2/78Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford5 September 1698
EL/P1/91Letter, from Denis Papin to Hans Sloane16 May 1709
EL/W2/83Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford22 August 1699
EL/S2/106Extract of a letter, from Hans Stanley to Hans Sloane, dated at Lausanne1737
EL/G1/52Letter, from Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane, dated at Canterbury6 March 1698
EL/G1/71Letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1700
EL/L3/13Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft2 January 1700
EL/B3/75Translation of a letter and paper, from Matthias Belius to Hans Sloane , dated at Presburg in Hungary13 March 1739
EL/P1/93Letter, from Denis Papin to Hans Sloane31 December 1711
EL/S2/33Extract of two letters, from Johann Jakob to Scheuchzer and Hans Sloane1732
EL/W2/81Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford17 October 1698
EL/W2/84Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford2 September 1699
EL/G1/56Letter, from Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane, dated at Canterbury3 April 1704
EL/R1/76Letter, from P. I. Rocquette to Hans Sloane, dated at St Petersbourg [St Petersburg]24 June 1732
EL/G2/21Translation of a letter, from Jean de la Grive to Hans Sloane1734
EL/B2/71Letter, from Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane, dated at Boston15 November 1725
EL/G2/20Translation of letters, from Jean de la Grive and Jacques Cassini to Hans Sloane 1734
EL/L3/18Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1700
EL/R2/47Letter, from Monsieur [Rene Antoine Ferchault] de Reaumur to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1737
EL/B3/78Extract of a letter, from John Burton to Hans Sloane, dated at York22 February 1737
CLP/4i/52Letter, regarding an account of a storm at Denbigh in Wales from unknown author to Hans Sloane[1706]
EL/W3/19Letter, from James Wallace to Hans Sloane25 October 1700
EL/P1/92Letter, from Denis Papin to Hans Sloane, dated at London21 April 1711
EL/B2/50Letter, from Dominicus Bottoni to Hans Sloane, dated at Messina, ItalyDecember 1698
EL/G1/53Letter, from Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane dated at Canterbury4 May 1699
MC/6/160Letter from Rob B [Robert Brotherton] Upton, Clerk to the Society of Apothecaries, Apothecaries Hall, London, to [Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie], President of the Royal Society29 June 1861
EL/N2/12Letter, from Frank Nicholls to Hans Sloanend
EL/B2/52Letter, from G Broughton to Hans Sloane, dated at Venice10 April 1699
EL/M3/11Letter, from [Charles-Louis de Secondat de] Montesquieu to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris4 August 1734
EL/S2/101Translation of a letter, from Dr [Johann Georg] Steigertahl to Hans Sloane, dated at Hanover1737
EL/W2/72Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford3 February 1700
EL/G1/42Letter, from George Garden to Hans Sloane, dated at Aberdeen22 July 1696
EL/M1/114Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane, dated at ExeterMay 1712
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
EL/B3/24Letter, from John Bates to Hans Sloane1731
EL/B3/77Translation of a letter, from Job Baster to Hans Sloane, dated at Zirkzee in Zeland11 October 1738
EL/P2/20Translation of a letter, from Monsieur [Henri] Pitot to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1740
EL/L3/24Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1700
EL/M2/64Letter, from Pietro Michelotti to Hans Sloane1735
EL/W2/70Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford7 December 1700
EL/M1/100Letter, from William Molyneux to Hans Sloane, dated at Dublin22 January 1698
EL/H4/2Letter, from John Henry de Heucher to Hans Sloane, dated at Dresden29 March 1730
EL/R1/54Extract of a letter, from Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane, dated at North Bierley5 September 1733
EL/B2/47Letter, from Samuel Buckley to Hans Sloane23 April 1698
EL/F2/16Copy of a letter, from Messieurs Fabri and Bartillot to Hans Sloane1729
EL/N2/11Letter, from Frank Nicholls to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris28 December 1728
EL/G1/68Letter, from Patrick Gordon to the publisher of the 'Philosophical Transactions'18 December 1700
EL/K/20Letter, from Thomas Kirke to Hans Sloane, dated at Cookridge2 November 1694
EL/D1/54Letter, from William Derham to Hans Sloane, dated at Upminster13 November 1709
EL/M3/38Letter, from Joseph Morgan to Hans Sloane, dated at Maidenhead, New Jersey14 February 1733
EL/B2/51Letter, from G Broughton to Hans Sloane, dated at Venice16 January 1699
EL/H3/48Letter, from Edmond Halley to Hans Sloane, dated at Chester Castle12 October 1696
EL/L5/109Letter, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Hans Sloane, dated at Hanover30 January 1700
EL/S2/14Letter, from Hans Sloane to G[ottfried Wilhelm] Leibniz, dated at London4 July 1700
EL/T/63Letter, from Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane, dated at Leeds25 February 1713
EL/I2/25Translation of a letter, from Joseph de Lisle to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1740
EL/K/40Translation of a letter, from James Theodorus Klein to Hans Sloane, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)1740
L&P/1/121Letter, 'Observations on board HMS Furnace, Churchill River, Hudson's Bay, and at Prince of Wales Fort, Churchill River, in 1741 and 1742' from Christopher Middleton to Hans Sloane1742
EL/W2/75Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford6 September 1699
EL/M1/99Letter, from William Molyneux to Hans Sloane, dated at Dublin4 November 1697
EL/M3/20Extract of a letter, from Gerardus Fridericus Muller [Gerhard Friedrich Muller] to Hans Sloane30 June 1733
EL/B3/58Extract of a letter, from Abbe Jean Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1 September 1737
EL/M3/39Letter, from Joseph Morgan to Hans Sloane, dated at Maidenhead, New Jersey22 December 1732
EL/S2/92Translation of a letter, from J[ohann] A[ndreas von] Segner to Hans Sloane1738
EL/L6/53Translation of a letter, from D Law to Hans Sloane, dated at Dunkirk1738
EL/M1/101Copy of a letter, from William Molyneux to Hans Sloane, dated at Dublin1698
EL/P1/101Letter, from Charles Preston to Hans Sloanend
EL/W2/64Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford20 January 1698
EL/W4/12Translation of a letter, from Paul Werlhof to Hans Sloane, dated at Hanover1736
L&P/1/447Paper, 'Of a coralline' by Hans Sloane1745
CLP/11ii/19Letter, regarding effects of laurel water on dogs from R Porter to Cromwell Mortimer 11 January 1731
CLP/12ii/58Translation of a letter, 'Sir Hans Sloane's letter to the Marquis de Caumont, concerning this stone' by Hans Sloane[1730s]
CLP/12ii/58/1Manuscript translation of a letter, 'Sir Hans Sloane's letter to the Marquis de Caumont, concerning this stone' by Hans Sloane[1730s]
CLP/10ii/8Translation, 'The anatomical preparation of vegetables' by Albertus Seba [1728]
CLP/10i/57Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants, from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1732; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1733
CLP/8ii/4Paper, 'Observations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites from 1700 to 1727' by William Derham1727
EL/P1/102Letter, from Charles Preston to Hans Sloane, dated at Edinburgh13 October 1698
EL/G1/58Letter, from Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane, dated at Canterbury1 May 1705
EL/L3/20Translated extract of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1700
EL/G1/54Letter, from Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane, dated at Canterbury4 May 1700
EL/M1/118Letter, from William Musgrave to Hans Sloane, dated at Exeter14 May 1713
EL/A/48Letter, from John Adair to Hans Sloane, dated at Edinburgh20 December 1698
EL/H3/49Letter, from Edmond Halley to Hans Sloane, dated at Chester mint26 October 1696
EL/D1/49Letter, from William Derham to Hans Sloane, dated at Upminster23 January 1699
EL/L3/17Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft9 July 1700
RBO/21/18'A Catalogue of fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden presented to the Royal Society by the company of Apothecaries for the year 1736 pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1737
RBO/14/50'A remarkable Conformation of the Urinary Parts communicated in a letter to Hans Sloane' by John Budgen1729
RBO/15/90'Account of the Body which was found burnt to Ashes as mention'd in Sir Thomas Dereham's Letter to Hans Sloane'1731
RBO/20/23'A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea Carden presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1735: pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1736
RBO/15/11Account of the effects of the Oenanthe aquatica Cucytae on three people who had eaten its root in a letter from Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane1730
CLP/10i/55Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1730; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1731
MS/557/2/4Secretarial notes of Royal Society meetings by Hans Sloane and others, 1702-0821 October 1702-4 February 1708
P/0118Portrait of Sloane, Sir Hans1716
CLP/14ii/2Paper, 'Experiments and observations of the effects of several sorts of poisons on animals made at Montpellier in 1678 and 1679' by William Courten1710
RBO/17/44Account of a white iris seen in the sky by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane 1731
CLP/16/49Paper, regarding the conveyance of a marble sepulchre owned by Hans Sloane by Roger Gale1735
CLP/14ii/15Paper, 'Fluxus sanguinis per penem mirabilis' [Case of extreme blood loss] by Dr Howman1723
CLP/14ii/43Paper, 'Account of the symptoms arising from eating the seeds of henbane, with their cure, and some occasional remarks' by Hans Sloane[1734]
CLP/15ii/1Paper, 'Some observations made in an ostrich [Struthio camelus] dissected by order of Hans Sloane' by John Ranby[1724]
EL/L3/28Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft15 April 1701
CLP/3ii/5Paper, 'Proposals about the machine to get good air for respiration and vegetation' by D [Denis] Papin[1709]
EL/L3/15Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft14 June 1700
CLP/8i/53Letter, regarding a theory for calculating certain places of the planets from unknown author to Hans Sloane1696
EL/L3/27Translated extract of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1701
L&P/1/447/1Paper, 'Of a coralline' by Hans Sloane1745
RBO/17/13Account of a murrain among cattle in Switzerland by Dr Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane1732
EL/L3/28aTranslated extract of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1701
EL/W2/74Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane1699
EL/S2/85Account of a woman who was bitten by a chaplain and died sent by Dr [Johann Jakob] Scheuchzer to Hans Sloanend
CLP/3ii/37/1Manuscript, 'Description of a new invention of bellows call'd water bellows' by Martin Triewald1736
EL/L3/10Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft25 September 1699
EL/F2/34Letter, from John Fuller to Hans Sloane23 May 1738
EL/B3/76Translation of a letter, from Job Baster to Hans Sloane, dated at Zirkzee in Zeland1 March 1738
EL/L6/6Letter, from Dr Lloyd to Hans Sloane2 February 1699
EL/W2/63Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane11 January 1698
EL/R1/78Letter, from P. I. Rocquette to Hans Sloane, dated at St Petersbourg [St Petersburg]15 July 1732
EL/G2/16Extract of a letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy [Claude Joseph] to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris4 May 1732
EL/B2/42Letter, from Charles Bernard to Hans Sloane26 September 1696
EL/G2/34Extract of a letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy [Claude Joseph] to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1737
EL/L3/19Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft27 July 1700
EL/L6/7Letter, from J Lowther to Hans Sloane27 October 1703
EL/L6/50Extract of a letter, from James Logan to Hans Sloane, dated at Philadelphia20 September 1735
EL/I2/20Translation of a letter, from Jacobe to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1736
EL/S2/13Letter, from Hans Sloane to Richard Waller, dated at London22 August 1694
EL/D1/58Letter, from William Derham to Hans Sloane, dated at Upminster23 February 1712
EL/G2/15Letter, from Laurence Garcin to Hans Sloane, dated at Neuschatel in Switzerland23 October 1732
EL/M2/16Letter, from John Monro to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris29 October 1700
EL/W4/13Letter, from Johann Weidler to Hans Sloane, dated at Wittemberg11 December 1732
EL/H4/17Translation of a letter, from [Henri Louis] du Hamel de Monceau to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1735
RBO/2i/0Memorandum, regarding Register Book 2 and its duplicate1662
CLP/15i/44Paper, 'An account of a prodigiously large feather of the bird cuntur, brought from Chili [Chile], and supposed to be a kind of vultur; and of the coffee shrub' by Hans SloaneApril 1694
EL/S2/84Account of a phenomenon in the sky called 'white iris' sent by Dr [Johnann Jakob] Scheuchzer to Hans Sloanend
EL/S2/80Account of a fasting woman and how she began to eat again by [Johann Jakob] Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane1726
EL/G2/36Extract of a letter, from Monsieur [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1739
EL/S2/97Translated extract of a letter, from Dr [Johann Georg] Steigertahl to Hans Sloane, dated at Hanover20 April 1736
EL/L3/21Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft7 September 1700
EL/L3/14Translated extract of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane1700
EL/L3/33Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft21 June 1701
EL/L3/23Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft26 October 1700
EL/G1/72Letter, from Monsieur Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris28 May 1700
EL/B3/36Copy of a letter, from Theophilus Sigfrid Bayer to Hans Sloane20 June 1734
EL/C3/45Translation of a letter, from Monsieur [Gaspard] Cuenz to Hans Sloane1739
EL/K/36Letter, from James Theodorus Klein to Hans Sloane, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)4 July 1730
EL/W2/79Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford21 September 1698
EL/W2/62Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford9 August 1697
CLP/18i/127Paper, 'The specifick gravities of several mettaline cubes. Comparison with their like bulks of water' by Francis Hauksbee1711
CLP/16/34Paper, 'Part of a letter, concerning some Roman coins and other antiquities lately found in Lincolnshire [England]' by [Rastrick]22 October 1701
CLP/16/29Figures, bases of columns for a Roman altar by Ralph Thoresby[1694-1697]
CLP/16/49/2Figure, conveyance of a marble sepulchre owned by Hans Sloane by Roger Gale1735
CLP/16/34/1Manuscript, 'Part of a letter, concerning some Roman coins and other antiquities lately found in Lincolnshire [England]' by [Rastrick]22 October 1701
CLP/15ii/7Paper, 'The anatomy of the poisonous apparatus of the rattlesnake made by the direction of Hans Sloane' by John Ranby[1727]
EL/B3/42Extract of a letter, from George Bell to Hans Sloane, dated at Canton10 December 1710
EL/B2/69Letter, from Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane, dated at Boston30 November 1721
CLP/22i/71Paper, Account of 'Archaeologia Britannica [British archaeology]' by Edward Lhuyd[1707]
CLP/14ii/20Extracts of several letters, regarding a 'naevus maternus' or 'mole' from [Johann Georg] Steigertahl to Hans Sloane[1725]
CLP/16/49/1Manuscript, regarding the conveyance of a marble sepulchre owned by Hans Sloane by Roger Gale1735
CLP/15ii/21Paper, 'Conjectures on the charm or fascinating power attributed to the rattlesnake: grounded on credible accounts, experiments and observations' by Hans Sloane[1730]
CLP/14i/42Paper, 'A relation of the symptoms that attended the death of Mr Robert Burdett an English merchant of Aleppo, who was killd [sic] by the bite of a serpent' by Aaron Goodyear[1695]
CLP/11ii/20Paper, 'A treatise of ambargris' by Caspar Neuman [Neumann]15 October 1729
CLP/10i/59Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants, from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1734, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1735
EL/K/35Letter, from James Theodorus Klein to Hans Sloane, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)12 January 1730
EL/L6/57Translation of a letter, from Charles Nicholas Languis to Hans Sloane, dated at Lucern1736
RBO/13/6'An Account of Elephant's teeth and Bones found underground' by Hans Sloane1727
CLP/10i/48Catalogue, 'A catalogue of 50 plants lately presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries of London, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1723
CLP/10i/49Catalogue, 'A catalogue of 50 plants from Chelsea Garden presented to the Royal Society for the year 1723 by the Company of Apothecaries of London, purusant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by [Isaac Rand]1723
CLP/10i/50Catalogue, 'A catalogue, of the of 50 plants, from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by , for the year 1724 by the Company of Apothecaries' by Mr Is [Isaac] Rand1724
CLP/10i/52Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1727; purusant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by [Isaac Rand]1727
CLP/10i/53Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1728; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1728
CLP/10i/54Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1729; pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1729
CLP/10i/60Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1735, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1736
CLP/10i/61Catalogue, 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1736, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1737
CLP/11ii/22Letter, regarding Caspar Neumann's treatise on ambergris from A [Ambrose] Godfrey [Hanckewitz] to Sir Hans Sloane[1731]
CLP/12i/55Extract, 'Part of a letter from Mr Bussiere [sic] to Dr Sloane wherein he gives an account of the new way of cutting for the stone by the hermit with his opinion of it' by [Paul] Buissiere[1690s]
CLP/12ii/59Letter, 'Containing the description of a very extraordinary stone or calculus taken out of the bladder of a man after death' from the Marquis de Caumont [Joseph de Seytres] to Hans Sloane30 June 1732
CLP/13/9Paper, ['An essay concerning giants'] by Thomas Molyneux19 May 1699
CLP/16/17Paper, 'Explication de la nouvelle table chronologique de l'histoire Chinoise' [Explanation of a new chronological table of Chinese history] by Father Johannes Franciscus Fouquet1730
RBO/7/28Description of the Pimiento or Jamaica Pepper tree, and the wild Cinnamon Tree, commonly, but falsely called the 'Cortex Winterauus', by Hans Sloane[1690]
RBO/7/75Letter from William Derham to Hans Sloane 'about a contrivance to measure the height of the Mercury in the Barometer by a Circle on one of the weather Plates'1698
RBO/7/84Part of a letter from Mr [Paul] Bussiere [Buissiere] to Hans Sloane concerning a new method of removing a bladder stonend
RBO/9/32'Account of Some Roman, French and Irish Inscriptions and Antiquities lately found in Ireland and Scotland by Mr Edward Lluyd [Lhwyd]' communicated by William Musgrave to Hans Sloanend
RBO/9/94'Account of the Firr Trees in Scotland' by Earl of Cromertie to Hans Sloane1710
RBO/11/84'A Catalogue of 50 Plants presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries of London. Pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane Baronet President of the College of Physicians and Vice President of the Royal Society'1722
RBO/12/7'Some Observations made on an Ostrich dissected by Order of Sir Hans Sloane Baronet' by John Ranby Surgeon1724
RBO/12/89'An account of a Pair of very extraordinary large Horns found in Wapping some Years since' by Hans Sloane1727
RBO/13/15'The Anatomy of the poisonous Apparatus of a Rattle Snake made by the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane' and 'an Account of the quick Effects of the Poison by John Ranby'1727
RBO/19/66'A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden presented to the Royal Society by the company of Apothecaries for the year 1734: pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Randnd
RBO/14/24'A Farther Account of the Generation of Eels and the Variety of it in the Worm kind particulariz'd in the Worm, Snail and Oyster' communicated to Hans Sloane by Benjamin Allen1729
RBO/14/28'Astronomical Observations made in the publick Observatory at Bologna by Doctor Eustachio Manfredi communicated to Sir Hans Sloane presented by Thomas Dereham and translated from the Italian by Dr Scheuchzer1728
RBO/14/119'An account of a peculiar Entrochus' in a letter to Sir Hans Sloane from Dr Joannes Henry Heucher, Physician to the King of Poland, Professor of Anatomy and Botany at Wittemberg1730
RBO/15/56'An account of the late hard Frost communciated in a Letter to Hans Sloane' by William Derham1730
RBO/15/63'An account of an Essay concerning the mechanical Causes of Gravity, Elasticity and of the Cohesion or mutual Attraction of the primary insensible parts of Bodies as also of the mutual Aversion or Repulse of others' by J Brown to Hans Sloane1730
RBO/15/76Account of three earthquakes which occurred in Switzerland in 1728 and 1729 by Dr Scheuchzer1731
RBO/15/89'Account of the Bite of a Man proving mortal' by Dr Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane1731
RBO/17/41Barometric observations to determine the height of Mount Gothard by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane 1732
RBO/18/62'Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden presented to the Royal Society by the company of Apothecaries for the year 1732: pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1733
RBO/18/63'An Account of Symptoms arising from eating the Seeds of Henbane with their Cure, and some occasional Remarks' by Hans Sloane1733
EL/B3/40Translation of a letter, from the Marquis de Bon to Hans Sloane, dated at Montpellier18 August 1738
EL/B3/41Translation of a letter, from Marquis de Bon to Hans Sloane, dated at Montpellier20 March 1739
EL/B3/47Extract of a letter, from Theophilus Sigefridus Bayer to Hans Sloane, dated at St Petersburg17 August 1736
EL/B3/62Extract of a letter, from [Louis] Bourguet to Hans Sloane, dated at Neufshatel10 October 1737
EL/B3/73Translation of a letter, from Matthias Belius to Hans Sloane, dated at Presburg in Hungary1 January 1738
EL/B3/74Translation of a letter and paper, from Matthias Belius to Hans Sloane, dated at Presburg in Hungary13 August 1738
EL/B3/81Letter, from George Boddington to Hans SloaneApril 1739
EL/C1/85Letter, from Jacques Cassini to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris20 August 1700
EL/C3/44Letter and extracts, from Gaspard Cuenz to Hans Sloane, dated at Neuschatel30 July 1739
EL/D1/47Letter, from William Derham to Hans Sloane, dated at Upminster3 January 1697
EL/D1/50Letter, from William Derham to Hans Sloane, dated at Upminster5 March 1700
EL/D1/53Letter, from William Derham to Hans Sloane, dated at Upminster20 December 1703
EL/G1/46Letter, from David Gregory to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford12 October 1699
EL/G2/27Extract of a letter, from Monsieur [Claude Joseph] Geoffroy to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1740
EL/K/39Translation of an extract of a letter, from James Theodorus Klein to Hans Sloane, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)1739
EL/L3/25Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Hans Sloane, dated at Delft25 December 1700
EL/M3/23Translation of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris1731
EL/N2/4Letter, from Casper Neumann to Hans Sloane, dated at Berlin16 April 1733
EL/S2/10Letter, from Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane, dated at Edinburgh21 June 1698
EL/S2/60Translation of a letter, from John Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane, dated at Zurich6 November 1731
EL/T/70Letter, from Brook Taylor to Hans Sloane, dated at Bifrons near Canterbury25 June 1712
EL/T/88Letter, from Christopher Jacob Trew to Hans Sloane, dated at Nuremburg8 February 1734
EL/W2/69Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford5 December 1700
EL/W2/73Letter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane, dated at Oxford20 December 1699
RBO/15/57'Nova literaria Physico medica curiosa containing a Description of the Cereus peruvianus which flower'd at Norimberg in the Year 1730' communicated to Hans Sloane by John George Steigertahl1730
RBO/19/17'A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1733 pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand1734
RBO/12/12'A Catalogue of 50 Plants from Chelsea Garden presented to the Royal Society for the year 1724 by the Company of Apothecaries pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane Baronet' by Isaac Rand Apothecary1725
CLP/3ii/37Paper, 'Description of a new invention of bellows call'd water bellows' by Martin Triewald1736
EL/S2/15Letter, from Hans Sloane [to the Royal Society]4 July 1700
LBO/12/87Copy letter from Anthoni Van Leeuwenhoeck, Delft, to Hans Sloane 27 July 1700
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