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See also:EDWARD See also:LLWYD (166o-1709) , See also:British naturalist and See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:Cardiganshire in 166o . He was educated at Jesus See also:College, See also:Oxford, but did not See also:graduate; he received the degree of M.A. however in 1701 . In 169o, after serving for six years as assistant, he succeeded R . See also:Plot as keeper of the Ashmolean museum, a position which he retained until 1709 . In 1699 he published Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, in which he described and figured various fossils, personally collected or received from his See also:friends, and these were arranged in cabinets in the museum . They were obtained from many parts of See also:England, but mostly from the neighbourhood of Oxford . A second edition was prepared by See also:Llwyd, but not published until 176o . He issued in 1707 the first See also:volume of Archaeologia Britannica (afterwards discontinued) . He was elected F.R.S. in 1708 . He died at Oxford on the 3oth of See also:June 1709 . |
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