ORIGINS OF MODERNITY

natural history

Royal Society (Great Britain). Museum.
Grew, Nehemiah (1641-1712)
Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society : and preserved at Gresham Colledge. Made by Nehemiah Grew ... Whereunto is subjoyned the Comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts. By the same author.
London : printed by W. Rawlins, for the author, 1681.

The clergyman and microanatomist Nehemiah Grew assembled this catalogue during his tenure as Secretary of the Royal Society. The collection contains many specimens from travellers to distant lands. This was a particularly productive time for Grew as seen in the appended work of comparative anatomy. His The anatomy of plants followed a year later in 1682 in which he announced the sexual reproduction of plants.