Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England: From its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnaean System (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture) - Softcover

Pulteney, Richard

 
9781108037334: Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England: From its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnaean System (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)

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Richard Pulteney (1730–1801) was a Leicestershire physician whose medical career suffered both from a lack of aristocratic patronage and from his dissenting religious background. However, his lifelong interest in botany and natural history, and particularly his work on the new Linnaean system of botanical classification, led to publications in the Gentleman's Magazine and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1762. His book on Linnaeus (also reissued in this series), first published in 1782, was later considered to be of great significance for the acceptance in England of the Linnaean system, and this two-volume work, published in 1790, is still relevant to the study of the history of botany. Volume 2 includes the development of botanical gardens, famous figures such as Dillenius and Sherard, and the study of botany in Scotland and Ireland.

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Richard Pulteney (1730-1801) was a botanist and physician, influential in promoting the Linnaean system of classification in England. This 1790 two-volume examination of the development of botanical studies in Britain is still of great interest to botanists and garden historians.

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