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CHARLES ALSTON (1683-176o)

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

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