The John Bargrave Collection
Nehemiah Grew (1641 - 1712)
Botanist, physician (MD, Leiden), and member of the Royal Society, Grew was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society with Robert Hooke in November 1677 following the death of Henry Oldenburg. In addition to managing the society's correspondence and editing the Philosophical Transactions, he was the first curator of the society's repository and compiled a catalogue of the collection.Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521?docPos=2 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah_Grew Roles: Botanist
Curator
People linked to person: Nehemiah Grew was a member of Royal Society (-)
Thomas Allen (1540 or 1542-1632) was a donor to Nehemiah Grew
Henry Sampson (1629-1700) was a relative of Nehemiah Grew
Michael Wicks (-fl. 1698) was a donor to Nehemiah Grew