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

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John Josselyn (c. 1608 - 1700?)

English travel writer Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://www-oxforddnb-com.cyber.usask.ca/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-15138?rskey=SIiBuH&result=1 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Josselyn Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of Two Voyages to New-England .
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - New Englands Rarities Discovered.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - New-England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country.
References in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) 49. Digitalis Mariana Persicæ folio. 49.  This I take to be the Humming Bird Tree, figured in Josselin's New-England Rarities.  These Leaves stand opposite on half Inch Footstalks, above four Inches long and three quarters broad.