The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
George Alfrey ( - fl. c. 1699)
Ship surgeon with Edmond Halley on the Paramour Pink on a voyage to the South Atlantic and Brazil in 1698-99 (Stearne, 359). Relevant locations: Visited Brazil, South AmericaRelationships: George Alfrey was a worked with Edmond Halley (1656-1742)
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - James Petiver: promoter of natural science, c.1663–1718.
as Mentions or references - 'The most common grass, rush, moss, fern, thistles, thorns or vilest weeds you can find': James Petiver's plants.
References in Documents:
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 347. Anomala Brasil . floribus parvis, ex alis foliorum, longo
tenuissimoque pediculo affixis.George Alfrey , Surgeon Edmund
Halley , Brasil ,
tenuissimoque pediculo affixis.
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