The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Jacob, the Elder Bobart (1599 - 1680)
Botanist and superintendent of the Oxford physic garden from its founding to his death. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2741?docPos=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bobart_the_Elder BotanistRelevant locations: Workplace or place of business University of Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford
Relationships: Jacob Bobart (2 Aug 1641-1719) was a son of Jacob, the Elder Bobart
Tilleman Bobart (-fl. c. 1709) was a son of Jacob, the Elder Bobart
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Catalogusof 1658. The plane is sometimes said to have been introduced by Bacon; it was evidently still very rare; Evelyn was given a specimen by Sir George Croke to whom he attributes its successful introduction: see successive notices in
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Diary, ed. de Beer, vol. 3, p. 386, n. 6)
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