Reverend Adam Buddle gave Sloane thirteen volumes of British plants.
He died, after some weeks'illness, the last week in November 1706, and was buried at Hampstead 3 December, his funeral sermon being preached by his friend Adam Buddle.
He became acquainted with the leading workers in the fields of his interests, such as John Ray, Adam Buddle, Benjamin Wilkes, Eleanor Glanville and William Sherard, and instructed Eleazar Albin, the watercolourist, in natural history.
On 6 October 1727, he entered the University of Leyden to continue his studies under Linnaeus, at Houstoun's request, for the English cleric and botanist Adam Buddle, although Buddle could have known nothing of the plant as he had died in 1715.