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List of the Minerals

Lat misc d 25, 68-82 (List)

Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford

Date:c. 1685-90 Scribe (in assoc. with a ms or print source)Jacob Bobart (2 Aug 1641-1719) Annotation:"It is highly probable that a re-arrangement of the Minerals according to their chemical constitution was one of the first tasks that fell to Plot as keeper. 'A List of the Minerals', in the hand of the botanist, Professor Jacob Bobart the younger, is in the Bodleian Library. It is written in a notebook immediately after a list of plants, and before 'Some few hasty notes from Dr. Plott', indicating that the writer was a pupil of Plot's. The MS... may be dated c. 1685-90" (Gunther 3: 238).