GB 0114 MS0015
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1773-1793
Volume containing 32 letters from John Hunter to Edward Jenner, 1773-1793. The letters were written whilst Jenner practiced medicine at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, having been a pupil of Hunters in London from 1770 to 1772. The letters record Hunter's encouragement of Jenner in his botanical, ornithological and medical observations and experiments, and include requests for Jenner to send him animal specimens, including fossils.
Hunter , John , 1728-1793 , anatomist and surgeon Jenner , Edward , 1749-1823 , physician and naturalist