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CHARLES ALSTON (1683-176o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 757 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:ALSTON (1683-176o)  , Scottish botanist, was See also:born at Eddlewood, near See also:Hamilton, in 1683, and became lecturer in materia medica and See also:botany at See also:Edinburgh and also See also:superintendent of the botanical gardens, of the See also:plants in which he published a See also:catalogue in 1740 . He was a critic of See also:Linnaeus's See also:system of plant-See also:classification (see BOTANY) . He died on the 22nd of See also:November 176o at Edinburgh . His Lectures on Maleria Medica were published posthumously in 1770 .

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