The Garden Bug: Early Plant References

By Brenda Weaver

Christopher Merret was born in 1615 in Gloucestershire, England. He studied medicine and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1651. He liked collecting plants and maintained a herb garden. In 1666 he produced one of the first resources for British plants, animals and fossils known as the Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. The book includes the first known lists of British butterflies and birds.

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