LETTSOM, John Coakley

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A Doctor who published The Naturalist’s and Traveller’s Companion, containing Instructions for Collecting and Preserving Objects of Natural History, 1774. Presumably this is the same Lettsom whose collection is mentioned by Stephens (1828), I, p.57. His library was sold by Leigh and Sotheby between March 26 and April 3 1811 and included 1347 lots. (MD 11/03)
Dates
d. before 1828