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Centimmtion of Sloane — Puhlijhes Ms voyage u 
Jamaica — His dijcoveries excite emulation — 
Correfponds with Ray — Ele5ied member of the 
Royal Academy of Paris — Chojen phyfician tcr 
' ^een Ann — Created a baronet — Phyfcian ge- 
Tieral to the array — Trefident of the College of 
Thyfictans — and frefident of the Royal Society — 
Retires to Chelfea in 1741 — His death and 
character — Lifl of his numerous memoirs in the 
Phiiofopliical Tranfadions. 
sloane; 
IN tlieyear 1701, Dr. Sloane was in- 
corporated dodlor of phyfic at Oxford ; 
and v/as affociated member of feveral aca- 
demies on the continent. In 1707, he 
publiflied the firft volume of his hiilory, 
under the following title : 
A Voyage to the Iflands Madeira^ 
BarbadoeSf Nevis, St. Chrijiopher s, and 
** Jamaica ; with the Natural Hiftory of 
the Herbs and Trees, four-footed Beafts, 
" Fifhes^ Birds, Infeds, Reptiles, &c. To 
which 
