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See also: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
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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
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. . de liquore nervosa
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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
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In 1672, when the essay was published, he settled in See also:London, and soon acquired an extensive practice as a physician
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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: See also:Linnaeus named a genus of trees Grewia (nat. ord . Tiliaceae) in his See also:honour . |
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