Browsing Theses by Subject "Hans Sloane"

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    • Putting nature in a box: Hans Sloane’s ‘Vegetable Substances’ collection 

      Pickering, Victoria Rose Margaret (Queen Mary University of London, 2017-06-25)
      The ‘Vegetable Substances’ collection was formed by the physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) between the 1680s and the 1750s. All sorts of people ranging from ship’s captains in the Americas to surgeons in ...