The Digital Ark :: Isaac Rand

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

Isaac Rand (1674 - 1743)

Botanist and apothecary. He was the first Horti Praefectus Botanicus Chelseiani (Director and Lecturer in Botany) at the Society Physic Garden. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org./10.1093/ref:odnb/23108 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Rand Apothecary
Botanist
Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea
Relationships: Isaac Rand was a associate or acquaintance (general) of James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)

Linked print sources: as Subject of/in a document - Isaac Rand and the Apothecaries' Physic Garden at Chelsea.
References in Documents:

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) A. 10. a Phalæna bombylus max. fuscus. This and the last may be Male and Female, its dark part of the Wings are blacker and narrower, Mr Rand caught this the last Summer on Hampstead Heath.