Nehemiah Grew, MD, physician and botanist, secretary to the Royal Society, 1641-1712. Gresham College, Holborn, London, where the Meetings of the Royal Society were held from 1660 to 1710. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Newton after a portrait by Robert White from Dr. Robert John Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1805.

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