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JOHN MARTYN (1699-1768)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 804 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN MARTYN (1699-1768)  ,
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English botanist, was born in
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London on the 12th of September 1699 . Originally intended for a business career, he abandoned it in favour of medical and botanical studies . He was one of the founders (with J . J . Dillen and others) and the secretary of a botanical society which met for a few years in the
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Rainbow Coffee-house, Watling Street; he also started the
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Grub Street Journal, a weekly satirical review, which lasted from 1730 to 1737 . In 1732 he was appointed professor of botany in Cambridge University, but, finding little encouragement and hampered by lack of appliances, he soon discontinued lecturing . He retained his professorship, however, till 1762, when he resigned in favour of his son Thomas (1735-1825), author of
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Flora rustica (1792-1794) . Although he had not taken a medical degree, he long practised as a physician at
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Chelsea, where he died on the 29th of
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January 1768 . His reputation chiefly rests upon his Historia plantarum rariorum (1728-1737), and his
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translation, with valuable agricultural _and botanical notes, of the Eclogues (1749) and Georgics (1741) of Virgil . On resigning the botanical chair at Cambridge he presented the university with a number of his botanical specimens and books . See memoir by Thomas Martyn in
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Memoirs of John Martyn and Thomas Martyn, by G . C .

Gorham (183o) .

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