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SUMMARY:John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse i
 n Genoa in March 1664 - Raffaella Bruzzone (University of Nottingham)
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DESCRIPTION:The English naturalists John Ray (1627–1705) and Francis Wil
 lughby (1635–1672) spent part of the spring of 1664 collecting plants ar
 ound the lighthouse (Ital. lanterna) in Genoa. This paper is about the geo
 graphy of that site and in particular the evidence for the continuity of p
 lant species collected there from 1664 until the present day. This researc
 h is based on the archival and printed material which Ray and Willughby le
 ft behind\, the notebook at the Chelsea Physic Garden Library in London\, 
 the dried specimens at the Natural History Museum in London and the printe
 d volume of their European Tour (1663–66)\, _Observations Topographical\
 , Moral\, & Physiological Made in a Journey Through part of the Low-Countr
 ies_ [...] (1673)\, all concerning the species collected around the so-cal
 led Pharos – a landscape that has partially survived until the current d
 ay. Whilst the plants found at the site today are few\, those that remain 
 can be compared with their past botanical ancestors through some historica
 l artefacts\, including nineteenth-century herbaria held in Genoa.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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