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Curtis, William

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British scientist (1746-1799)

Born 1746
Died 1799

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  • Cover of: Flora londinensis: or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnæus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts.

    First published in 1777 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: Botanical magazine: or, flower-garden displayed : in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the open ground, the green-house, and the stove, are accurately represented in their natural colours : To which are added, their names, class, order, generic and specific characters, according to the celebrated linnaeus; their places of growth, and times of flowering: together with the most approved methods of culture. A work intended for the use of such ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the plants they cultivate

    First published in 1790 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural economy, and other arts

    First published in 1777 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Curtis's flower garden displayed: 120 plates from the years 1787-1807
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    First published in 1991 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Lectures on botany: as delivered in the botanic garden at Lambeth

    First published in 1803 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: A catalogue of the British, medicinal, culinary, and agricultural plants, cultivated in the London Botanic Garden
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    First published in 1783 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: A short history of the brown-tail moth: the caterpillars of which are at present uncommonly numerous and destructive in the vicinity of the metropolis
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    Cover of edition shorthistoryofbr0000curt First published in 1782 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: William Curtis, 1746-1799: fellow of the Linnean Society, botanist and entomologist, with some notes on his son-in-law Samuel Curtis

    First published in 1941 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Linnaeus's system of botany: so far as relates to his classes and orders of plants

    First published in 1777 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Curtisʼs flower garden displayed: 120 plates from the years 1787-1807

    First published in 1981 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Proposals for opening by subscription, a botanic garden, to be called the London Botanic Garden: designed for the use of the physician, the apothecary, the student in physic, ...
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    First published in 1778 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: An abridgement of the Flora londinensis with reduced plates

    First published in 1793 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Botanical Magazine; or, flower-garden displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, ... will be accurately represented in their natural colours. ...

    First published in 1787 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A catalogue of the British, medicinal, culinary, and agricultural plants, cultivated in the London Botanic Garden. By William Curtis, ... To which are prefixed, proposals for opening it by subscription

    First published in 1783 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: catalogue of the plants growing wild in the environs of London

    First published in 1774 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Curtis Museum, Alton, Hampshire, 1855-1955: the first hundred years of a small museum.

    First published in 1955 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Directions for cultivating the Crambe Maritima: or sea Kale, for the use of the table.

    First published in 1799 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Lectures on botany, as delivered to his pupils: arranged by Samuel Curtis.

    First published in 1803 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Linnaeus's system of botany, so far as relates to his classes and orders of plants: illustrated by figures entirely new, with copious explanatory descriptions

    First published in 1777 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Observations on aphides: chiefly intended to show that they are the principal cause of blights in plants, and the sole cause of the honey-dew

    First published in 1802 — 1 edition
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British scientist (1746-1799)

Born 1746
Died 1799

Subjects

Botany, Pictorial works, Early works to 1800, Plants, Botanical illustration, Diseases and pests, Flowers, Aphids, Beetles, Bloemen, Browntail moth, Classification, Corn, Curculionidae, Curtis Museum (Alton, Hampshire), English Botanists, Grasses, Herbals, History, Illustrated books, Insects, London Botanic Garden (Lambeth, London, England), Plants, classification, Poaceae, Sierplanten

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London, England, Great Britain, Europe

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William Curtis (1803-1881)

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ids
June 7, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import