Dear Dr. Eddy:
I would be interested to learn the title of your essay on the Essays and
Observations.
Thank you,
Margaret DeLacy
At 04:00 PM 9/17/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>afraid, like Marcus, I haven't run across Lake's name either. Having just
>written an essay on Edinburgh's Essays and Observations (1754-1768), I'm
>pretty
>sure that his name doesn't occur there - a significant point since several
>other
>physicians/naturalists from South Carolina published papers in the EO on
>botanical materia medica simples. Perhaps Lake was English?
>
>Yours,
>Matthew.
>
>--
>University of Durham, Department of Philosophy, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN.
>
>Quoting "Marcus B. Simpson, Jr." <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > Unfortunately I do not have any information on Lake, but I am intrigued by
> > the fact that there are surviving specimens from that time period in your
> > collections. I have read somewhere that the Royal College of Surgeons also
> > acquired some preserved specimens from the Hans Sloane collection, in the
> > early 1800s I believe. There are a number of "Carolina" specimens from the
> > first half of the 18th century that were in the Sloane materials, and your
> > note caused me to wonder if any of these, or manuscript records of their
> > acquisition, might still survive in your collections.
> >
> > I will check my South Carolina files to see if there are extant newspapers
> > from that time period. Although this is often a frustrating "needle in the
> > haystack" effort, I have occasionally found very helpful data on
> > naturlists' activities in the Charleston, SC papers from the 1780s onwards
> > (e.g. John Fraser [1750-1811] the plant collector and nurseryman of
> > Chelsea who operated a botanical export business in Charleston during that
> > time). I just can't recall off the top of my head as to when the earliest
> > papers were being published from Charleston, but I should be able to get
> > at that info in a few days. If these are available on microfilm, one could
> > always search through them - a tedious business but one that might turn up
> > an obiturary or evidence of business or political activities.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark Simpson
> > Wake Forest University
> > Winston Salem, NC 27157-1072 USA
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