James Petiver

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.

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"

External links

* [http://dz-srv1.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cache/browse/AuthorZoologicaMonograph,WorkContainedP1.html] --Digitised versions of "Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ", etc.;"Gazophylacium naturae et artis"and" Pteri-Graphia Americana" at GDZ Göttingen.

Collections

British Natural History Museum