See also:JOHN See also:MARTYN (1699-1768)
, See also:English botanist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 12th of See also:September 1699
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Originally intended for a business career, he abandoned it in favour of medical and botanical studies
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He was one of the founders (with J
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J
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See also:Dillen and others) and the secretary of a botanical society which met for a few years in the See also:Rainbow See also:Coffee-See also:house, Watling See also:Street; he also started the See also:Grub Street See also:Journal, a weekly satirical See also:review, which lasted from 1730 to 1737
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In 1732 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany in See also:Cambridge University, but, finding little encouragement and hampered by lack of appliances, he soon discontinued lecturing
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He retained his professorship, however, till 1762, when he resigned in favour of his son See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas (1735-1825), author of See also:Flora rustica (1792-1794)
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Although he had not taken a medical degree, he See also:long practised as a physician at See also:Chelsea, where he died on the 29th of See also:January 1768
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His reputation chiefly rests upon his Historia plantarum rariorum (1728-1737), and his See also:translation, with valuable agricultural _and botanical notes, of the Eclogues (1749) and Georgics (1741) of See also:Virgil
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On resigning the botanical See also:chair at Cambridge he presented the university with a number of his botanical specimens and books
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See memoir by Thomas See also:Martyn in See also:Memoirs of See also:John Martyn and Thomas Martyn, by G
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C
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Gorham (183o)
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