1. James Hamilton, the eldest son of the Reverend Hans Hamilton, minister of Dunlop in Ayrshire, came to Ireland as a secret agent for James VI of Scotland (later James I of England). Eric St. John Brooks, Sir Hans Sloane: The Great Collector and His Circle (London: 1954), 18.
2. William Sloane married Jane Hamilton of Killyleagh, the heiress of the Hamilton estates at Clanbrassil. Stanley A. Hawkins, “Sir Hans Sloane (1669–1735) [sic]: His Life and Legacy,” Ulster Medical Journal (2010) 79, no. 1:25–9, online at http://www.ums.ac.uk /umjo79/079(1)025.pdf.
3. Boyle brought Stahl from Strasburg to Oxford in about 1659. His students at Oxford included John Locke, Christopher Wren, and many other distinguished British scientists. Guy Meynell, “Locke, Boyle and Peter Stahl,” N&R (1995) 49, no. 2:185–92.
4. Brooks, Sloane, 40–1. The relationship between Sloane and Staphorst was long-lived. In 1692, Sloane and Tancred Robinson commissioned Staphorst to translate Leonhart Rauwolf’s Itinerary from German to English, with notes by Ray. Brooks, Sloane, 123; Stanley R. Friesen, “Sir Hans Sloane: The Spirit of Inquiry,” The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha (1985) 48, no. 2:19–24, on 20.
5. Tournefort (c. 1655–1708) was an early supporter of iatromechanism. See Brockliss and Jones, The Medical World of Early Modern France (Oxford: 1997), 419. Chirac had recently been appointed professor at Montpellier; he later became physician to the King of France.