John Lightfoot FRS | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/06/2019

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00:00:45 1 Life and work
00:03:40 2 iFlora Scotica/i
00:05:34 3 Species named in his honour



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The Reverend John Lightfoot (9 December 1735 – 20 February 1788) was an English parson-naturalist, spending much of his free time as a conchologist and botanist. He was a systematic and effective curator of the private museum of Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. He is best known for his Flora Scotica which pioneered the scientific study of the plants and fungi of Scotland. He elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his scientific work.

He was an excellent scholar in many branches of literature; but after the study of his profession, he addicted himself chiefly to that of botany and conchyliologie [sic]. He excelled in both.