A bust of the famed physician, naturalist and collector Sir Hans Sloane. I spent the day doing some desultory browsing of the British Library’s Sloane manuscript collection, and while it yielded little that I can actually use in my research, I did come across these poems. Apparently written by one of Sir Hans Sloane‘s colleagues, the …
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Benjamin Breen 