Reverend John Ray, AM, FRS, naturalist, author of Historia Plantarum, 1627-1705. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Holl after a portrait by Mrs. Mary Beale. Britannia crowning a bust of Ray as the Prince of English Botanists by Thomas Uwins, engraved by William Holl. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dr. Robert John Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1804.

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