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It is fairly well known that Sir Hans Sloane, whose large collection of botanical and other objects formed the basis for the establishment of the British Museum, spent 15 months in Jamaica, as physician to Governor Albemarle in the 1680s. While in Jamaica he collected and annotated a wide selection of plants, insects, fish and other specimens. It is, however, almost forgotten that the Director of the British Museum who 'propelled it into the twentieth century' was a Jamaican, Edward Maunde Thompson, who was born in the island in 1840.

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Last updated on January 15, 2003, the 244th anniversary of the opening of the British Museum.

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On this site I will give an account of the lives of these two interesting men.

Joy Lumsden

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