SCIENTISTS OF NOTTINGHAM AND DISTRICT HI 



degrees at Cambridge. In 1662 he travelled with John Ray in the north 

 Midlands assisting in the work of compiling a catalogue of British plants; 

 and in 1663 they went abroad together to collect a complete catalogue 

 of animals and plants. Many of Willughby's specimens are still pre- 

 served in Wollaton Hall. He was one of the original Fellows of the 

 Royal Society (1663). After his death, at Middleton, his notes on birds, 

 insects and fishes were published by John Ray. Willughby is considered 

 to have been the first to treat the study of birds as a science and his 

 classification is said to be without doubt the system on which Linnaean 

 classification was based. 



Willughby, Percivall (1596-1685), b. Wollaton Hall, Notts. The 

 sixth son of Sir Percivall Willughby, he was educated at Rugby, Eton 

 and Oxford, and having trained as a doctor he settled down in Derby 

 where he acquired a very high reputation for his knowledge of and skill 

 in obstetrics. He left manuscripts on obstetrics in English and Latin, 

 one of which was translated into Dutch. A man of high culture and 

 powerful intellect he was a friend of most of the scientific men of the 

 century, d. Derby. 



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