Edward Lhuyd
Welsh natural historian and antiquary (1660ā1709) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edward Lhuyd FRS (1660 ā 30 June 1709), also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, herbalist, alchemist, scientist, linguist, geographer, and antiquary. He was the second Keeper of the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, and published the first catalogue of fossils, the Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia.
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