History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth CenturyAbridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... Ray , that the study of botany became extremely fashionable in England , and produced that cluster of eminent men whose illustrious labours Linnæus dignifies with the name of the golden age of botany . Gerard , Johnson , and Parkinson ...
... Ray , that the study of botany became extremely fashionable in England , and produced that cluster of eminent men whose illustrious labours Linnæus dignifies with the name of the golden age of botany . Gerard , Johnson , and Parkinson ...
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... new plants , chiefly American ferns and plants from . the Cape of Good Hope . 3. In the third volume of Mr. Ray's History of Sloane . Plants there is an account of the rare CHAP . I. ] 23 NATURAL HISTORY . - BOTANY .
... new plants , chiefly American ferns and plants from . the Cape of Good Hope . 3. In the third volume of Mr. Ray's History of Sloane . Plants there is an account of the rare CHAP . I. ] 23 NATURAL HISTORY . - BOTANY .
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... Ray . 5. PTERIGRAPHIA AMERICANA : Icones continens plus- quam cccc Filicum variarum Specierum . Tab . 20. 1712. Fol . 6. A Catalogue of Mr. Ray's English Herbal , with Figures . This work Mr. Petiver did not live to complete ; two parts ...
... Ray . 5. PTERIGRAPHIA AMERICANA : Icones continens plus- quam cccc Filicum variarum Specierum . Tab . 20. 1712. Fol . 6. A Catalogue of Mr. Ray's English Herbal , with Figures . This work Mr. Petiver did not live to complete ; two parts ...
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... Ray . The descriptions and figures are so accurate that little difficulty was found by succeeding botanists in determining the plants to which Sloane al- ludes . Prodigious learning and industry are displayed in settling the synonyms of ...
... Ray . The descriptions and figures are so accurate that little difficulty was found by succeeding botanists in determining the plants to which Sloane al- ludes . Prodigious learning and industry are displayed in settling the synonyms of ...
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... Ray acknowledges to have lain under to him . About the year 1702 , he was appointed Consul at Smyrna , where he resided about 16 years , cultivating a botanic garden and forming his Herbarium , which afterwards became unrivalled ...
... Ray acknowledges to have lain under to him . About the year 1702 , he was appointed Consul at Smyrna , where he resided about 16 years , cultivating a botanic garden and forming his Herbarium , which afterwards became unrivalled ...
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