Author:John Ray

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John Ray (1627–1705)

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John Ray

Works

• Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium (1660, followed by appendices in 1663 and 1685)
• Catalogus plantarum Angliae (1670)
• Collection of English Proverbs (1670)
• Collection of Out-of-the-way English Words (1674)
• Dictionariolum trilingue (1675, 5th edition as Nomenclator classicus, 1706)
• Catalogus plantarum Angliae (2nd edition, 1677)
• Methodus plantarum (1682)
• Historia plantarum
• The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation (1691)
• Miscellaneous Discourses concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World (1692)
• Synopsis methodica Animalium Quadrupedum et Serpentini Generis (1693)
• Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages (1693)
• Stirpium Europaearum extra Britannias nascentium Sylloge (1694)
• Methodus (2nd edition, 1703)
• Synopsis methodica Avium et Piscium (1713)
• Historia Insectorum

Works about Ray

• “Ray, John” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• Vines, Sydney Howard (1913), "Robert Morison 1620—1683 and John Ray 1627—1705" in Oliver, Francis Wall (ed.) Makers of British botany: 8–43.
• “Ray, John,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.

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