James Petiver

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James Petiver (1663-1718) was a London apothecary, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his study of botany and entomology. He named the Red Admiral butterfly after a British Naval Flag and named Fritillary after a chequered dice box.

Petiver received many plant specimens, seeds and much other material from correspondents in the American colonies.

[edit] Works

  • 1698 An account of some Indian plants etc. with their names, descriptions and vertues; communicated in a letter from Mr. James Petiver...to Mr. Samuel Brown, surgeon at Fort St. George, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London.
  • 1700-1703 - An account of part of a collection of curious plants and drugs, lately given to the Royal Society of the East India Company, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society


[edit] Collections

British Natural History Museum

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