Memoirs historical and illustrative, of the Botanick Garden at Chelsea ; belonging to the Society of Apothecaries of London / [Henry Field].

  • Field, Henry, 1755-1837.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Memoirs historical and illustrative, of the Botanick Garden at Chelsea ; belonging to the Society of Apothecaries of London / [Henry Field]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    About this time died Mr. Janies Peti- 1718. ver, a name worthy of honourable men¬ tion in the history of this garden. The exact time of his birth is unknown. He was apprenticed to Mr. Feltham, apothe¬ cary to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. After which he settled in business in Aldersgate- street, where he continued the remainder of his life. He was in great practice, and became apothecary to the Charter-house. He accumulated so large a collection of natural history, that some time before his death, Sir Hans Sloane is said to have offered him 4000/. for it. After his death Sir Hans purchased it, and it came even¬ tually to the British Museum. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and assisted the great Mr. Ray in arranging the second volume of his history of plants, who gives this brief, but expressive and affectionate testimony to his merits. 66 Jacobus Pe- tiver, non postremae notae botanicus, mei amicissimus/’ He officiated as demonstrator of plants to the Society as early as the year 1709, but how long prior to that period cannot