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NEHEMIAH GREW (1641-1712)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 586 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEHEMIAH See also:GREW (1641-1712)  , See also:English See also:vegetable anatomist and physiologist, was the only son of See also:Obadiah See also:Grew (1607-1688), See also:Nonconformist divine and See also:vicar of St See also:Michael's, See also:Coventry, and was See also:born in See also:Warwickshire in 1641 . He graduated at See also:Cambridge in 1661, and ten years later took the degree of M.D. at See also:Leiden, his thesis being Disputatio medico-physica . . . de liquore nervosa . He began observations on the See also:anatomy of See also:plants in 1664, and in 167o his See also:essay, The Anatomy of Vegetables begun, was communicated to the Royal Society by See also:Bishop See also:Wilkins, on whose recommendation he was in the following See also:year elected a See also:fellow . In 1672, when the essay was published, he settled in See also:London, and soon acquired an extensive practice as a physician . In 1673 he published his See also:Idea of a Phytological See also:History, which consisted of papers he had communicated to the Royal Society in the preceding year, and in 1677 he succeeded See also:Henry See also:Oldenburg as secretary of the society . He edited the Philosophical Transactions in 1678-1679, and in 1681 he published " by See also:request " a descriptive See also:catalogue of the rarities preserved at See also:Gresham See also:College, with which were printed some papers he had read to the Royal Society on the See also:Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts . In 1682 appeared his See also:great See also:work on the Anatomy of Plants, which also was largely a collection of previous publications . It was divided into four books, Anatomy of Vegetables' begun, Anatomy of Roots, Anatomy of Trunks and Anatomy of Leaves, See also:Flowers, Fruits and Seeds, and was illustrated with eighty-two plates, while appended to it were seven papers mostly of a chemical See also:character . Among his other publications were See also:Sea-See also:water made Fresh (1684), the Nature and Use of the See also:Salt contained in See also:Epsom and such other See also:Waters (1697), which was a rendering of his Tractatus de sails . . . usu (169x), and Cosmologia sacra (1701) . He died suddenly on the 25th of See also:March 1712 .

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Linnaeus named a genus of trees Grewia (nat. ord . Tiliaceae) in his See also:honour .

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