Thanks to Andy Mabbett, Charlotte Porter and Arthur Lucas for their quick and useful responses. I'll follow them up. In particular thanks to Arthur Lucas for the link to Nathan Hill's MA thesis. And Charlotte, I live in Finland (I'm an American academic expat) but I wish you well with your project!
I'm a historical discourse linguist, and what I'm working on is a study of the discourse and rhetorical strategies of front-matter paratexts (title-pages, dedications, prefaces etc) in eighteenth-century natural history writings across the Atlantic. It's part of a larger discourse-historical project at the English Department at the University of Turku called "Pragmatics on the Page".
The Internet community is amazing -- no matter how abstruse the subject, there's always someone out there who knows something about it and is happy to share it. I'm in my 70s; I spent most of my academic life in a world where on-line resources didn't exist, and I would probably have had to spend days if not weeks trying to track down information which I now have in twelve hours just sitting at my desk. Even in the early 1990s, when I started researching the Royal Society and the Phil Trans, there was nothing available on-line. Young people nowadays don't always realize how relatively recent all this is. Thanks again!
Ellen.
Ellen Valle, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer (retired), Associated Researcher
Department of English, University of Turku
20014 Turku, Finland
Phone: 358 2 2353003
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From: History of Natural History [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Andy Mabbett [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 0:56
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Subject: Re: [HIST-NAT-HIST] Question: Who was William Stork?
On 19 October 2013 18:45, Charlotte Porter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> William Stork, a physician, was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, UK,
> (check out those archives). He was sent over by land speculators and
> investors to promote East Florida, essentially lands along the St John's
> River. Please share what you find.
There is no Wikipedia article about him, though he seems a likely
candidate. if you can put what you know there, with citations, that
would be appreciated.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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