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1. NHJ, 1:preface (unpaginated); ‘A Letter from Dr Hans Sloane … to the Right Honourable the Earl of Cromertie’, PT 27 (1710–12), 302–8; Sloane to Richard Richardson, 20 November 1725, in John Nichols and John Bower Nichols (eds.), Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, 8 vols., London, 1817–58, 1:283; Sloane to Richardson, 12 September 1724, in Dawson Turner (ed.), Extracts from the Literary and Scientific Correspondence of Richard Richardson, Yarmouth, 1835, 213; Jonathan Bardon, The Plantation of Ulster: The British Colonisation of the North of Ireland in the Seventeenth Century, Gill & Macmillan, 2011, 149; Peter Foss and Catherine O’Connell, ‘Bogland: Study and Utilization’, in John Foster (ed.), Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History, McGill-Queens University Press, 1999, 184–98, p. 186.

2. Eoin Neeson, ‘Woodland in History and Culture’, in Foster, Nature in Ireland, 133–56, esp. 140–45; Foss and O’Connell, ‘Bogland’; Nicholas Canny, ‘The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland to America’, WMQ 30 (1973), 575–98; Bardon, Ulster, chs. 4–5, Davies and James I quotations 115, 124, Blennerhasset quotation 126–7, and Irish Society 128–31.

3. Eric St John Brooks, Sir Hans Sloane: The Great Collector and his Circle, Batchworth Press, 1954, 18–21, 24–5; Mark Purcell, ‘ “Settled in the North of Ireland”: Or, Where did Sloane Come From?’, in Hunter, Books to Bezoars, 24–32, pp. 26–8; Margaret Sanderson, Ayrshire and the Reformation: People and Change, 1490–1600, Tuckwell Press, 1997, 110, 133; Jane Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century, Yale University Press, 2012, 15.

4. Brooks, Sloane, 36–8; Bardon, Ulster, 135–46; Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English, 202, 416; Purcell, ‘Settled’, 26–8; D. W. Hayton, Ruling Ireland, 1685–1742: Politics, Politicians, and Parties, Boydell, 2004, 46–8, 58, 75; http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/sloane-james-1655-1704, accessed April 2014.

5. Toby Barnard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649–1770, Yale University Press, 2003, 325–37; Colin Kidd, British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ch. 4, Ussher quotation 167, and 251–6; Nicholas Canny, ‘Identity Formation in Ireland: The Emergence of the Anglo-Irish’, in Canny and Anthony Pagden (eds.), Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800, Princeton University Press, 1987, 159–212; D. W. Hayton, The Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680–1730: Religion, Identity and Patriotism, Boydell, 2012, esp. ch. 2.

6. Purcell, ‘Settled’; Thomas Stack to Sloane, 28 October 1728, Sloane MS 4048, fol. 254.

7. NHJ, 1:preface; Richard Drayton, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the ‘Improvement’ of the World, Yale University Press, 2000, ch. 1, Austen quotation 12.

8. Birch, ‘Memoirs’, fol. 1.

9. Toby Barnard, Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641–1770, Yale University Press, 2004, quotations 333; David Miller, ‘The “Hardwicke Circle”: The Whig Supremacy and its Demise in the 18th-Century Royal Society’, NRRS 52 (1998), 73–91, p. 76; John Kenyon, The Popish Plot, Heinemann, 1972; William Gould to Sloane, 25 January 1681, Sloane MS 4036, fol. 1.

10. Birch, ‘Memoirs’, fol. 2; Anita Guerrini, ‘Anatomists and Entrepreneurs in Early Eighteenth-Century London’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 59 (2004), 219–39; Penelope Hunting, A History of the Society of Apothecaries, Society of Apothecaries, 1998; Sue Minter, The Apothecaries’ Garden: A History of the Chelsea Physic Garden, Sutton Publishing, 2000; Drayton, Nature’s Government, ch. 1; William Charleton [Courten] to Sloane, 10 September 1687, Sloane MS 3962, fol. 308; Sloane to John Ray, 11 November and 20 December 1684, in Edwin Lankester (ed.), The Correspondence of John Ray, The Ray Society, 1848, 156–9; Jill Casid, Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization, University of Minnesota Press, 2005, ch. 2; Pratik Chakrabarti, Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century, Manchester University Press, 2010, 146–7.

11. Birch, ‘Memoirs’, fol. 2; de Beer, Sloane, 16; Barnard, Grand Figure; Hayton, Anglo-Irish Experience; Michael Hunter, Boyle: Between God and Science, Yale University Press, 2009; HS, 9; J. E. Dandy, The Sloane Herbarium, British Museum, 1958, 206.

12. George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance, MIT Press, 2007, ch. 6; Howard Turner, Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction, University of Texas Press, 1996; Jim Al-Khalili, The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Wisdom and Gave Us the Renaissance, Penguin, 2010.

13. William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Princeton University Press, 1994; Lauren Kassell, Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman, Astrologer, Alchemist and Physician, Oxford University Press, 2007; Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, University of Chicago Press, 1996; Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, Princeton University Press, 1985.

14. Herbert Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science, 1300–1800, 1949, Free Press, 1965; David Wootton, The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, Allen Lane, 2015; Marwa Elshakry, ‘When Science Became Western: Historiographical Reflections’, Isis 101 (2010), 98–109, p. 107; Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography, Oxford University Press, 1995, e.g. ch. 2; Lawrence Principe, The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest, Princeton University Press, 2000; Betty Jo Dobbs, The Foundation of Newton’s Alchemy: or, ‘The Hunting of the Green Lyon’, Cambridge University Press, 1975; Patricia Fara, Newton: The Making of Genius, Columbia University Press, 2002; Simon Schaffer, ‘Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in the Eighteenth Century’, History of Science 21 (1983), 1–43.

15. Allen Debus, Chemistry and Medical Debate: Van Helmont to Boerhaave, Science History Publications, 2001; William Newman, ‘From Alchemy to “Chymistry” ’, in Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 3: Early Modern Science, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 497–517, esp. 497, 502, 511–15; Matthew Eddy et al. (eds.), Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World, vol. 29 of Osiris (2014); Charles Webster, Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time, Yale University Press, 2008; Andrew Wear, Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 98–9, 354–5.

16. John Powers, ‘ “Ars Sine Arte”: Nicolas Lemery and the End of Alchemy in Eighteenth-Century France’, Ambix 45 (1998), 163–89, pp. 170, 174, 180–81; for Sloane’s ownership of works by Lémery, and his library holdings more generally, see the Sloane Printed Books Catalogue, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/, accessed August 2014; Sloane MSS 1232, fols. 41–76, and 3861, fols. 49–62 (Lémery).

17. Daniel Carey, Locke, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 2005, chs. 1–3, esp. 24, 30; John Locke to William Molyneux, 22 February 1697, in E. S. de Beer (ed.), The Correspondence of John Locke, 8 vols., Clarendon Press, 1976–89, 6:4–9, quotations 7.

18. Charles Raven, John Ray, Naturalist: His Life and Works, Cambridge University Press, 1942, 83, quotation from the Cambridge Catalogue, 1660; Brian Ogilvie, ‘Natural History, Ethics, and Physico-Theology’, in Nancy Siraisi and Gianna Pomata (eds.), Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe, MIT Press, 2005, 75–104; Alexander Wragge-Morley, ‘The Work of Verbal Picturing for John Ray and Some of his Contemporaries’, Intellectual History Review 20 (2010), 165–79; Philip Sloan, ‘John Locke, John Ray, and the Problem of the Natural System’, Journal of the History of Biology 5 (1972), 1–53; Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660–1750, Cambridge University Press, 1992, part 1.

19. Birch, ‘Memoirs’, fols. 2–3; Martin Lister, A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698, 3rd edn, London, 1699, 4 (‘French air’), 62–71; Gould to Sloane, 25 January 1681, Sloane MS 4036, fol. 1; Linda Levy Peck, Consuming Splendour: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 128–35; Anna Marie Roos (ed.), Every Man’s Companion: Or, An Useful Pocket-Book, 1663–6, MS Lister 19, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, http://lister.history.ox.ac.uk, accessed December 2016, and Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the First Arachnologist, Brill, 2011, 69–72, and ch. 3; Alice Stroup, A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences, University of California Press, 1990; Laurence Brockliss and Colin Jones, The Medical World of Early Modern France, Oxford University Press, 1997, esp. 184, 190; Matthew Senior, ‘Pierre Donis and Joseph-Guichard Duverney: Teaching Anatomy at the Jardin du Roi, 1673–1730’, Seventeenth-Century French Studies 26 (2004), 153–69, esp. 162–3; Anita Guerrini, ‘Theatrical Anatomy: Duverney in Paris, 1670–1720’, Endeavour 33 (2009), 7–11.

20. Birch, ‘Memoirs’, fols. 2–3; Thomas Wakley to Sloane, 11 February 1684, Sloane MS 4036, fol. 6; Sloane, Miscellanies Catalogue, BM, 250–52, 393–5 (phosphorus); Tancred Robinson to Ray, 10 September 1683, Lankester, Correspondence of John Ray, 135; de Beer, Sloane, 16, 21–2; Jan Golinski, ‘A Noble Spectacle: Phosphorus and the Public Cultures of Science in the Early Royal Society’, Isis 80 (1989), 11–39, pp. 27–8; Powers, ‘ “Ars Sine Arte” ’, 165; Christie Wilson, Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France, Lehigh University Press, 2011.

21. Archives de Vaucluse, translated in de Beer, Sloane, 20–21; Wear, English Medicine, chs. 1–4.

22. Birch, ‘Memoirs’, fol. 4; Andrew Cunningham, ‘Thomas Sydenham: Epidemics, Experiment and the “Good Old Cause” ’, in Roger French and Andrew Wear (eds.), The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 164–90, pp. 182–3; Dorothy and Roy Porter, Patient’s Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England, Stanford University Press, 1989, ch. 7, esp. 131; Simon Schaffer, ‘The Glorious Revolution and Medicine in Britain and the Netherlands’, NRRS 43 (1989), 167–90, pp. 180–81; ‘nonsense’ quotation in Joseph Payne, Thomas Sydenham, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, 190.

23. Sachiko Kusukawa, Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany, University of Chicago Press, 2012; Harold Cook, ‘Medicine’, in Daston and Park, Cambridge History of Science, Volume 3, 407–34, esp. 410–23; Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971, chs. 7–8; Peter Forshaw, ‘Magical Material and Material Survivals: Amulets, Talismans and Mirrors in Early Modern Europe’, in Dietrich Boschung and Jan Bremmer (eds.), The Materiality of Magic, Wilhelm Fink, 2015, 357–78; NHJ, 1:preface.

24. Birch, ‘Memoirs’, fols. 2–3; Robert Iliffe, ‘Foreign Bodies: Travel, Empire and the Early Royal Society of London, Part One – Englishmen on Tour’, Canadian Journal of History 33 (1998), 357–85, pp. 360–62; Sloane to Ray, 11 November 1684, Lankester, Correspondence of John Ray, 157; HS, 9–10; Dandy, Herbarium, 27.

25. E. A. Wrigley, Poverty, Progress, and Population, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 49 n. 12; Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing, Bodley Head, 2012, introduction and ch. 4; Gretchen Gerzina, Black England: Life before Emancipation, John Murray, 1995; Catherine Molineux, Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain, Harvard University Press, 2012, ch. 1 and pl. 1; Ray to Sloane, 11 February 1684, Lankester, Correspondence of John Ray, 141.

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40. Estelle Ward, Christopher Monck, Duke of Albemarle, John Murray, 1915; Bardon, Ulster, 142, 145–6; Donal Synnott, ‘Botany in Ireland’, in Foster, Nature in Ireland, 157–83, p. 160; Zahedieh, Capital, 115, 119–20; Wear, English Medicine, 116, 130; NHJ, 1:preface; Gould to Sloane, 25 January 1681, Sloane MS 4036, fol. 1; Sloane to Ray, 29 January 1686, Lankester, Correspondence of John Ray, 189.

41. Sydenham quotation, n.d., in de Beer, Sloane, 26; Ray to Sloane, 1 April 1687, Lankester, Correspondence of John Ray, 192; Ray to Sloane, n.d., Sloane MS 4036, fol. 28; Robinson to Sloane, 8 April 1688, Sloane MS 4046, fol. 32; Jacob Bobart to Sloane, 1 October 1688, Sloane MS 4036, fol. 43.

42. NHJ, 1:preface and cxxii; Sloane to unknown, 19 May 1714, Sloane MS 4068, fol. 85; Birch, ‘Memoirs’, fol. 14; ‘Proposals made by Dr Sloane if it be thought fitt that he goe physitian to ye W. india fleet’, n.d., Sloane MS 4069, fol. 200; Sloane to Rawdon, 10 September 1687, MS HA 15790, Irish Papers, Huntington Library, San Marino.