Joan Salvador and James Petiver: the last years (1715-1718) of their scientific correspondence.

At the time of the war of the Spanish Succession (1705-1714), Joan Salvador and James Petiver, two apothecaries with an impassioned interest in understanding nature, began a long and fruitful correspondence that would only come to an end with Petiver's death in 1718. A previous paper sets out and discusses these two naturalists' correspondence (which is quite exceptionally complete) during the wartime period between the end of 1706 and the fall of Barcelona on 11 September 1714. This paper completes the review and discussion of their correspondence up until the death of Petiver in 1718. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]