The Digital Ark :: Richard Planer

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

Richard Planer ( - fl. 1704)

Relevant locations: Visited Cape Mesurado, Africa
Visited Carthagena [Columbia]
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Collecting Slave Traders: James Petiver, Natural History, and the British Slave Trade.
References in Documents:

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 217. Filix scandens Nummulariæ folio è Monte Serado. Brought me thence by Mr. Rich. Planer.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 1. MR.Mr. GEORGE ALFREY, Surgeon to Capt. HALLEY in his late Expedition, was so kind to make me some Collections of Plants on the Coast of Brasil. 2. Mr. EDWARD BARTER, at Cape Coast in Guinea. From this Person I lately received 3 or 4 Quires of Plants, with some Medicinal Roots, &c. 3. Mr. JACOB BOBART, Botanick Professor of the Physick-Garden at OXFORD, hath favoured me with some Plants I had not before seen. 4. Mr. SAMUEL BROWNE, Surgeon at Fort S. George in the East-Indies. To the indefatigable Industry of this Worthy and Generous Person, I am beyond expression obliged, for his large and frequent Performances; in not only gathering himself, but constantly employing several Persons to make Collections for me, and many of them some days Journy up the Country, from such Places we never yet saw any Plants before. And to most of these he has added their Indian Names, and the Vertues to such as are known to have any. I have this Year (besides several before) received near 20 Volumes in Folio, filled with fair and perfect Specimens of Trees and Herbs, and amongst them some from China, the Island of Ceilon, &c. He hath also procured me a Correspondence with divers Ingenious Persons residing in remoter Parts; and the like I could heartily wish my other Friends would do. 5. Mr. EDWARD BULKLEY, another Ingenious Surgeon at the same Place. This curious Person hath lately been pleased to send me thence 3 Volumes of Medicinal Plants, with their Names and Vertues annext; as also some Seeds, and a Materia Medica from Tonqueen; and formerly some from Persia. From this obliging Gentleman I have also farther Promises of Yearly Yearly Collections, as well from several other Parts of India, as of such as grow about him. 6. The Reverend Father GEORGE CAMELLI, a learned Jesuit; who hath been pleased to transmit to Mr. Ray and me, the Designs of such rare Medicinal Plants, with a large Account of their Vertue, Use, &c. as he hath experienced, and observed them to grow amongst the Philippine Islands, where he resides; some of which are already Published, and we hope e'er long to gratifie the World with something more from him. 7. Mr. WILLIAM CLERK, Surgeon, brought me lately some Plants and Seeds from Turkey. 8. Capt. JOHN CONWAY, my hearty and kind Friend; who, besides the care he took of several Collections, sent me from Fort St. George, the Cape of Good Hope, &c. procured me himself some Quires of Plants from the New Fort called Fort St. David, which is about 50 Leagues S. W. from Madrass. 9. Mr. CHARLES COOMBS, Surgeon, was so kind to collect me some Plants at Calabar, on the Coast of Africa; as also some others with some Insects from Maryland. 10. Mr. JAMES CUNINGHAME, Surgeon. A Learned and most industrious Promoter of Natural Philosophy, and extremely well qualified for such a Design; as I am very sensible, by the curious Remarks he hath made on most of the Plants, &c. he hath observed : having in a late Voyage to China made Collections wherever he touched, viz. 1. At Palma, one of the Canary Islands. 2. About Batavia in the Island of Java. 3. and 4. At Emuy and Colonshu, two Chinese Islands; from whence he also procured me the Paintings of near eight hundred several Plants in their Natural Colours, with their Names to all, and Vertues to many of them. In his return he visited the Streights of Malacca, the Cape of Good Hope, Island of Ascension, &c. at all these Places he not only collected Plants, with the Seeds of most of them, but also Insects, Shells, &c. and indeed whatever came in his way. A farther and more particular Account of these and many other things, the Publick may in time be acquainted with. 11. My kind Friend Mr. JOHN FOXE, Surgeon, sent me formerly a Collection of Plants, which he gathered at the Cape of Good Hope, and very lately some Shells from thence, as also 3 Quires of Plants from the Bay of Bengale. 12. The Reverend Mr. HUGH JONES, A very curious Person in all parts of Natural History; particularly in Fossils; some of which he hath sent me from Maryland with several Volumes of Plants very finely preserved; with divers Insects and Shells. From this obliging Gentleman, I am promised frequent remittances of whatever those Parts afford, as well Animals & Fossils as Vegetables. 13. Mr. 13. Mr. JEZREEL JONES. This worthy and kind Gentleman, in one Year whilst he was in Portugal (Secretary to his Excellency Mr. METHWYN our now Envoy) was pleased to make me considerable Collections every Month, of all the Plants he there observed, which he very curiously preserved: and after the same Monthly method, he sent me a great number of Insects; amongst them there were several altogether New to me and Strangers in England. To these he added what Shells and Fossils he there met with, as also some curious Reptiles. It were heartily to be wisht, that the Zeal and Industry of this Inquisitive Person, were imitated by such other curious Gentlemen, as may have occasion to travel or reside in more remoter Parts. 14. Mr. ROLESTON JACOBS. This young Gentleman was pleased to pick me up such curious Shells he met with amongst the Spicy and neighbouring Islands, being all or for the most part very fair as well as uncommon Shells. 15. Mr. WALTER KEIR. To this ingenious Surgeon I am obliged for some Plants, &c. he sent me from Jehore, in the Streights of Malacca, and I am in expectation of greater Performances from him. 16. Dr. DAVID KREIG, a German, Physician, and Fellow of our Royal Society. This curious Gentleman, after he had made several Remarks on the Natural Productions of this Island, and Painted several things he had here observed; was pleased to make a Voyage to Maryland, from whence he returned plentifully stored with what in Nature he had there taken notice of. His happy Genius in Designing, Painting, Etching, &c. were no small Additions to his other Qualifications; he being no less versed in the Study of Physick, than Anatomy, Botany, Chimistry, Natural Philosophy, and indeed whatever else is requisite to compleat a Physician. 17. Mr. SYLVANUS LANDON. Besides the Obligations I lye under to this worthy Gentleman and most ingenious Surgeon, for several Plants he formerly brought me from Cales, Alicant, Carthagena, and other Ports in Spain, and after that from the Island of Borneo in the East-Indies, with some very curious Serpents from thence: he hath been pleased lately to present me with the well-preserved Samples of such Trees, Herbs, &c. he has in a late Voyage observed on the Island of Flores; to these he has added the Shells of that and some other Islands in the East-Indies. In his return home, he also procured me the Remains of Dr. Oldenlands Collections at the Cape of Good Hope, with divers Reptiles, as Serpents, Lizzards, &c. from that most luxuriant Promontory. 18. I am very much oblig'd to Mr. GEORGE LONDON his Majesty's Gardener, who was pleased to present me with two two Volumes of dry Plants, very curiously Preserved, and collected at Maryland by my worthy Friend the Reverend Mr. Hugh Jones. 19. Mr. HENRY PASMORE. This Reverend Person was so kind to transmit me some Collections of Plants from the Island of Jamaica, with Promises of greater supplies, which I doubt not but he had performed had not Death prevented him. 20. Mr. RICHARD PLANER, Surgeon. This ingenious and hearty Friend made me formerly some Collections of Plants, Shells and Insects at Mount Serrado on the Coast of Africa: and in a Voyage since he got me other Collections from those Parts, with some very curious Insects off the Coast of Carthagena. 21. From Madam MARGARETHA HENDRINA van OTTEREN, Widow to that late most curious Botanist and Physician Dr. OLDENLAND, at the Cape of Good Hope, I have lately received the compleat Specimens of several Plants, very finely Preserved, and many of them such as I had not seen before; so that I am extremely obliged to this so generous a Benefactress, not only for these I have already received from her (and those formerly from her Learned Husband) but also for her kind Promises, in continuing to send me over whatever Plants that Fertile Promontory produces, with such Shells, Insects, Reptiles, Fossils, &c. as are there to be got. 22. Mr. JOHN RAY. To this most celebrated and worthy Author I stand indebted for many Favours, and particularly this last Summer, when I was with him, for some English Insects he was pleased to give me, which I had not before seen. 23. Mr. ROBERT RUTHERFORD, Surgeon. This hearty Person and kind Friend gathered me several Plants in Carolina, with some Insects and Shells he there observed. He hath also as I desired obliged some curious Persons that reside there, to hold a constant Correspondence with me. 24. Dr. FREDERICK RUYSCH, Anatomick and Botanick Professor in Amsterdam. To this most curious Person I am extremely obliged for several uncommon Reptiles, Insects, &c. which he was pleased formerly to favour me with; and since that I have received from him divers Exotick Plants, some of which I have not before not since seen. 25. Mr. STOCKER. This kind Person (and altogether a Stranger) was pleased to bring me a Collection of Shells, which he had pickt up in the Bay of Bengale, amongst them there were some very Curious. 26. Mr. ALEX. SYMPSON, Surgeon. This Gentleman was so kind lately to present me with the Samples of some Plants, very well Preserved, which he had observed about Gallipoli in Apulia. 27. Dr. 27. Dr. PITTON TOURNEFORT, Physician, one of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and Botanick Professor of the Royal Garden at PARIS. To this Celebrated Botanist I am obliged for some Alpine and Pyrenæan Plants he lately sent me, and am daily in expectation, according to his Promises, of greater Collections from him. 28. Mr. RICHARD WHEELER. This Person, my kind and hearty Friend, hath for many Years past, and doth still continue to send me all the Plants and Insects which he can get or procure me, about Long-Sound in NORWAY: many of the First being rare with us, and only to be met with in the North of England, and divers of the last are such I have not yet seen about London.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 501. PApilioPapilio albus, apicibus nigris, subtùs elegantèr maculatus, è Carthagena. From whence (in the West-Indies) my ingenious Friend Mr. Richard Planer Surgeon, brought it me, with several others.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 517. Papilio è Carthagena ex luteo & viridi subtùs ornatus, maculis plurimis nigris, 2 coccineis insignitèr notatus. Mr. Richard Planer an ingenious Surgeon, caught this beautiful Fly at Carthagena in America.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 534. Muscus denticulatus major volubilis, è Capite Montis Serado. Mr. Richard Planer Surgeon, presented me very lately with this amongst several other African Plants from that place.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 587. Cyperus paniculâ maximâ sqammosâ, è Prom. montis Serado. an? Ira H. Mal. V. 12. Tab. 55. p. 103. Gathered by my hearty Friend Mr. Richard Planer Surgeon.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 794. Polypodium Malabaricum foliis biformibus. Polypodium Indicum Pis. Mant. 195. Fig. Polypodium Indicum foliis latissimis Comel. in H. Mal. V. 12. p. 24. Jan Polypodium Indicum Clus. Exot. 88. Fig? an Polypodium exoticum folio Quercus C B. 359. 3? Panna Kelengo Maravara Malab. Kadehou Bram. H. Malab. V. 12. Tab. 11. p. 23. Fl. Mal. 218. pl. ult. id. Fol. pl. H. Ox. S. 14. p. 564. 13. an Lorog & Bonseg Luzon? an Ging-gin-keo Herb. nost. Chinens Tab. 9. Fig. 13? Mr. Richard Planer Surgeon gathered this at Mount Serado in Africa, and my Ingenious Friend Mr. James Cunninghame observed it in Iava. I have also very lately received it from Fort St. George. It's also found on several Trees in East-Indies.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 1. INIn her Grace the DUCHESS of BEAUFORT's most Noble Garden and Matchless Stoves at Badmington in Gloucestershire, I the last Summer met with many New Rare and very curious Plants, most of them raised to that Perfection I never saw before. 2. From Mr. JACOB BOBART, Botanick Professor of the Physick Garden at Oxford, I have at times received several curious Plants raised in that Garden under his Care. 3. Dr. JOANNES PHILIPPUS BREYNIUS (Son of JACOBUS BREYNIUS that late Celebrated Botanist) hath been pleased to give me several uncommon Plants, which he had collected the last Summer out of the most Curious Gardens in Holland, and he promised me greater Favours at his return to Dantzick. 4. Mr. EDMUND BOHUN hath again been pleas'd generously to present me with great variety of Insects and several Books of Plants, which he collected in Carolina. 5. I am much obliged to Mr. EDWARD BULKLEY at Fort St. George for several curious Plants, Shells, Insects, &c. which, since Mr. SAMUEL BROWNE's Death, he hath been pleased frequently to procure me, which I intend to give some Account of, with what else he shall particularly favour me with. 6. The Reverend Father GEORGE JOSEPH CAMEL hath again been pleased to Favour Mr. RAY and me with the accurate Descriptions and Designs of several new Plants he hath observed to grow in the Phillippine Isles. I have also lately received divers Insects from him, and other Curiosities which shall suddenly be Figured and Described. 7. Mr. MATTHEW COLVILL, Surgeon, gave me a Collection of such Shells he found on Pulo Verara, an Island near Malacca. 8. Mr. JAMES CUNINGHAME. To this Curious Person I am beyond expression obliged, not only for what he has formerly done, but also lately performed, viz. in his last Voyage to China he sent me Collections from the Cape of Good Hope, as also from Combuys near Java, and the Crocodile Isles, and twice from the Islands of Chusan, from whence I have received near two hundred several Plants, most of them altogether New, to these he has added such Insects, Shells, &c. as he met with; some of which are already Figured in the First and Second Decade of my Gazophylacium Nature & Artis, and others you may expect in my Third, &c. 9. To Mr. FIFIELD, Surgeon, I am obliged for some Shells and Plants he gathered in the Bay of Campeachy, and particularly for some Sprigs of the Logwood, which I never saw in England before. 10. Madam ELIZABETH GLANVILE. To this Curious Gentlewoman I am obliged for an hundred Insects lately sent me (besides others she gave me before) which she had observed in the West of England, several of them being altogether new to me. 11. Dr 11. Dr. CHARLES GOODALL, Physician to the Charter-house and one of the College, observed this last Autumn, near Tunbridge-Wells, several Curious Mushrooms which he was pleased to give me. 12. Mr. CLAUDIUS HAMILTON, Surgeon, was pleased some time since to give me a Book of Plants he had collected in Barbadoes, with his Observations on them. 13. From Mr. JAMES HAMILTON, Surgeon in Edinburgh, I have received several Curiosities. 14. To Dr. DAVID KRIEG, F. R. S. I am obliged for some Curiosities he sent me from Riga in Livonia; whilst that City was besieged, and for others since from Paris. 15. The Reverend Dr. LEWIS hath been pleased to favour me lately with some Shells, &c. part of which you may see in the Philosophical Transactions, No 282. and others are Figured in the second and third Decades of my Gazophylacick Tables. 16. In his Lordship the BISHOP of LONDON's Curious Gardens at Fulham, I yearly see many Rare Plants, and several of them not to be met with in any other Garden in England. 17. Dr. NISSOLE, a Physician and very Curious Botanist at Monpelier, has been pleased to send me a Collection, finely preserved, of such Rare Plants as I desired, growing thereabouts 18. My kind Friend Mr. RICHARD PLANER, Surgeon, hath again brought me several Plants and Insects from the Coasts of Guinea, not yet taken notice of, some of which I shall suddenly figure. 19. Mr. RANCE, Surgeon, was generally pleased to give me a Collection of such Shells, &c. he found in the Island of Borneo. 20. To Dr. RICHARD RICHARDSON, a Curious Naturally and Physician, I am indebted for many Rare Plants, Fossils, &c. which he hath observed in the North of England. 21. I have again from Dr. FREDERICK RUYSCH Anatomick and Botanick Professor in Amsterdam, received several Cape-Plants and Foreign Insects. 22. I am obliged to that Accurate Botanist Dr. WILLIAM SHERARD, for divers Specimens of Plants, several of which I had not before. 23. Mr. JAMES SKEEN, Surgeon, was pleased to present me with three of four Books of Plants, with such Shells and Insects as he and Mr. WATT, Surgeon, deceased, had observed at Cape tres Puntas and Wida on the Coast of Guinea. 24. Mr. JOHN STAREMBURGH. From this Gentleman I have received many Curious Cape-Plants very treatly dried, as also some Insects, which are figured in my first and second Decades, and I am daily in expectation of the arrival of many more Curiosites from him. 25. Mr. JOHN STOCKER hath again been pleased to bring me some Shells and Insects, which he hath met with in another East-Indies Voyage. 26. From Mr. JAMES SUTHERLAND, Superintendant of the Physick Garden at Edinburgh, I have received several uncommon Northern Plants, which he had gathered wild in Scotland. 27. I am again charged to that Celebrated Botanist Dr. PITTON TOURNEFORT, Physician, one of the Royal, Academy of Sciences, and Botanick Professor of the Royal Garden at PARIS, for not only his Institutions, Rei Herbariæ, but also for many Curious Plants, several of which he gathererd himself in and . 28. To Mons. VAILLANT (Secretary to Dr. FAGON, Chief Physician to the King of FRANCE) I am indebted for several uncommon Plants, growing about Paris and elsewhere, very curiously preserved. 29. To 29. To that Curious Preserver of all Natural and Artificial Rarities Myn Heer LEVINUS VINCENT at Amsterdam, I am very much obliged for divers admirable Insects he hath lately sent me. 30. Mr. THOMAS WALNER. This Generous Gentleman, at the desire of my kind Friend Mr. ROBERT ELLIS, hath lately sent me Specimens of the Brasiletto Wood, and some other Trees and Plants from New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands: for which I am extreamly obliged to him, and for his kind Promises of greater Performances, by the next and all Opportunities. 31. Madam WILLIAMS. This Gentlewoman, tho altogether a Stranger, was to kind as to send me several Curious Insects, especially Burterflies, which she had observed about her Residence in Carolina. These my hearty Friend Major WILLIAM HALSTEAD brought me with several Curiosities of his own collecting, as Plants, Shells &c. 32. A certain Curious , whose Name at present I am obliged to conceal, hath sent me, from Carolina, several Plants of that Country with his Remark on them.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 4. Musca AFRICANA flavescens, caudâ trisetâ, alis nebulosis. Mr. Richard Planer caught this at Cape Mount Serrado near GUINEA.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 7. Papilio CARTAGENIUS nigrescens, albâ lineâ prope extremitatibus alarum. Mr. Richard Planer Surgeon brought me this from Carthagena in America.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 6. Lacertus GUINEENSIS major, verruculis nigris albisque venuste obsitis. A harmless and very Lizard found in Guinea where they call it Pompom: This, with many other Curiosities, was presented me by Mr. Richard Planer Surgeon.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 3. Phalæna GUINEENSIS flava perelegans & pulchre eculata. This beautiful Insect my Hearty and Kind Friend M. Rich. Planer brought me with several others from the Guinea Coast.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) Cape Animals and Plants, &c. 91 439 Cape Feather Legs 12. 1. 440 Yellow Cape Tarantula 12. xi. 441 Cape Mole Locust 13. 7. 442 Black and Orange Cape Beetle 8. 6. 443 Black furrowed Cape Beetle 24. xi. 444 Black Cape Slug Beetle 12. 6. 445 Hoary speckled Cape Comber 8. 6. 446 Great Cape Centipes 13. 3. 447 Blush Cape Hippuris 3. 10. 448 Warty Cape Wrack 9. 14. 449 Porous Cape Rainbow Mushroom 4. xi. 450 Ruysch’sCape Cudweed 7. 1. 451 Small spiked Cape Cudweed 8. 12. 452 Cape Comose Silver Tufts 7. 3. 453 Cape ear’d Silver Tufts 30. 12. 454 Cape double white straw Flower 1. 9. 455 Cape single Blush Straw Flower 5. 10. 456 Cape clammy headed Knapweed 25. 6. 457 Cape Knapweed with Woolly Grass Leaves 6. xj. 458 Cape Maudlin with Samphire Leaves 34. 1. 459 Cape soft leaved Herman 34. 2. 460 Cape Purple Dyers broom 5. xi. 461 Cape Myrtle Cone 6. 4. 462 Cape Pine Cone 25. 7. 463 Cape headed Breynian 8. 1. 464 Cape hoary headed Breynian 5. 4. 465 Cape Heath Breynian 5. 2. 466 Cape spiked Breynian 3. 9. 467 Cape red flower’d Heath 3. 7. 468 Cape Cotton headed Heath 2. 9. 469 Cape mouldy headed Heath 2. 10. 470 Cape Time Lewisan 5. 7. 471 Cape Thorny Spinale Tree 26. 2. 472 Guiney Pompom or Bugle Lizzard 15. 6. 473 Black Guiney Butterfly with white spots 3. 4. 474 Kirchwood's speckled Angola Butterfly 9. 5. 475 Kirkwood's Selvidge eyed Angola Butterfly 6. 9. 476 White Angola Butterfly with bloody Tips 9. 10. 477 Skeen's brown pied Butterfly 12. 10. 478 Planer's yellow Guiney Moth 29. 3. 479 Nonpareil girdle bodied Guiney Moth 33. 7. 480 Bristle tail'd Mount Serado Fly 2. 4. 481 Sprinkle winged Aleppo Alderboult 3. 1. 482 Small Aleppo streak'd Beetle 2. 12. 483 Hairy speckled Aleppo green Beetle 13. 5. 484 Warty Wida Unicorn Shell 5. 5. 485 Flat Ascention Balanus 9. 9. 486 Bloody warted Barbary Mushroom 39. 8. 387