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

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

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