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BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 



animals and Ray to plants. Of Ray's several publications 

 in botany, his Historia Plantarum in three volumes (1686- 

 1704) is the most extensive. In another work, as early as 

 1682, he had proposed a new classification of plants, which 



Fig. 33. — John Ray, 1628-1705. 



in the next century v/as adopted by Jussieu, and which gives 

 Ray a place in the history of botany. 



Willughby died in 1662, at the age of thirty-eight, leaving 

 an annuity to Ray, and charging him with the education of 



