This travel grant would support research into the role of religious and political dissent in the early modern British medical and scientific community. The Banks Manuscripts of the London Natural History Museum holds an extensive and unexplored archive of correspondence centering on Patrick Blair (Scottish physician, Jacobite, and natural historian), John Martyn (English non-Juror, natural historian, and later Professor of Botany at Cambridge), and their circle. A study of their correspondence will further our understanding of the influence of religious and political identity on medical and scientific scholarship in early eighteenth-century Britain.