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ROBERT PLOT (164o-1696)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:PLOT (164o-1696)  , See also:English naturalist and See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Borden in See also:Kent in 164o . He was educated at Wye, and at Magdalen See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, where he graduated B.A. to 1661, and proceeded to M.A . (1664) and D.C.L . (1671) . He was distinguished for his See also:folio See also:work The Natural See also:History of See also:Oxfordshire (1677), in which various fossils, as well as other See also:objects of See also:interest, were figured and described . It was regarded as a See also:model for many subsequent See also:works . In 1677 See also:Plot was elected F.R.S., and he was secretary for the Royal Society from 1682 to 1684 . He was appointed in 1683 the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and in the same See also:year he became See also:professor of See also:chemistry . In 1686 he wrote The Natural History of See also:Staffordshire . Two years later he became historiographer-royal . He died on the 3oth of See also:April 1696 .

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