The John Bargrave Collection
Edward Lhwyd (1660 - 1709)
Alias Edward Lloyd (Alias)Alias Luidius [alias]
Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary. In 1684, he was appointed assistant to Robert Plot, the Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, and replaced him as Keeper in 1690, a post he held this post until 1709.
Lhwyd was active within a network of collectors that include Courten (who refers to him as "Floyd") (Kusukawa, 15 n.64).
Gunther:
Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709), of Jesus College, and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, was the author of a prolonged inquiry into the nature of fossils. Having the advantage of collections which had already become considerable, he was able to produce a work of some importance, the Lithophylacii Britannici ichnographia sive Lapidum aliarumque Fossilium Britannicorum singulari figura insignium distributis . . . . with letters about the more remarkable marine fossils and mineral species, London, 1699. In this work Lhwyd catalogued the figured fossils in the Ashmolean Museum, but owing to his absence on a collecting tour in Wales, many inaccuracies crept into the book, and a second and revised edition was issued in 1760 under the editorship of Lhwyd's successor in the Keepership, W. Huddesford.
Lhwyd's other contribution to geological literature was his tract De stellis marinis, fol. Leipzig, 1733, which contained the substance of his public Lectures at Oxford in 1701-7. It was also incorporated by Huddesford in the second edition of the Lithophylacii. He was proposed for the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1708, but his candidature was opposed by Woodward who regarded all fossils as a consequence of the Flood, whereas Lhwyd was convinced that fossils originated from the semina of fishes raised by vapours from the sea, which falling with the rain were carried into the inner parts of the earth. The opposition was, however, unsuccessful (Gunther, vol. 2, p. 222-223). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com.cyber.usask.ca/view/article/16633?docPos=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lhuyd Roles: Botanist
Collector (minor)
Correspondent
Curator
Relevant locations: Housed collection or remnant at Ashmolean Museum
Visited Bundoran
People linked to person: Edward Lhwyd was a unspecified to John Evelyn (1620-1706)
Edward Lhwyd was a unspecified to Martin Lister (12 Apr 1639-2 Feb 1712)
Edward Lhwyd was a unspecified to Robert Plot (1640 [bap.]-1696)
Edward Lhwyd was a unspecified to John Ray (1627-1705)
Edward Lhwyd was a unspecified to Tancred Robinson (1657/8-1748)
Edward Lhwyd was a correspondent of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
William Courten (28 Mar 1642-26 Mar 1702) was a unspecified to Edward Lhwyd
Christopher Hemmer (-fl. 1693) was a correspondent of Edward Lhwyd
Edward Morgan (c. 1619-1689) was a correspondent of Edward Lhwyd
William Stonestreet (1659-1716) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Edward Lhwyd
John Woodward (1 May 1665 or 1668-25 Apr 1728) was a friend of Edward Lhwyd