GRO 
fubje& of fithes amongft others. Haller mentions him as 
having written learned notes to the 20th and following books 
of Pliny. He continued to enrich hismufeum, and to de- 
vote it to the ufe of all who were defirous of confulting 1 it, 
as long as he lived. Inthe year 1750 Gronovius is repre- 
fented as labouring under the gout, as well as a hernia, but 
he lived to the age of vai dying in 1762. His herbarium 
was, after the Lah cf of his {oer urchafed bys se Saha 
Banks. Hall. Bibl. Bot. and E pitt {t—Gronovii 
Crosoyrvs, LAvuReENcE Tseonoke, Pes of, ce pre- 
ceding, was born at Leyden in 1730. ook the degree 
of doctor of laws, and, like his father, eutes to he 
chief civil bongare of his native place. From him he im- 
bibed a talte for natu itory, and, as we have already 
mentioned, edited the latelt and completeft edition of the 
#lora Virginica, He particularly excelled i in the. knowledge 
of fithes ; ee ne ppaxtenta of fyftematic print en- 
fecond part a ane in wos 
tions of. the + in 
In 1763 sperard, the Zoophyl i Groover! spt 
primus, containing de: criptions | “upeds, 
nphibia, and ‘a tilt: ( number 
uf ny the latter iluftrate by 13 good plates, 
“fpecies. The eno bcs of the fame 
in 1764, defcribes the infeéts of ~ col- 
work, pub 
aio, of which numerous fpecies are engrave 
copper aa on third and i 
1777. 
He publifhed in rh66 a tery ‘valuable aks in quarto Pp 
entitled Bibliotheca Regni Animalis atque Lapidei, on the 
plan of the Bibliotheca Botanice of and Segu 
with an excellent Jndex Rerum, highly. ufeful _ in fuch a 
citas 65 
ue 
He tented ‘moreover an speeds 
Stow, a ferva 
“gargon,- 
~ GROO} 
which fenfe fe u ne 
gorcio, and the Weelemeness 8 ree | 
are word is formed from the ifh, base _ puer, re 
oe pions FS Ean enc refidence of two years, he 
fer. ed fome works at and Montmorenci, 
: fons 8, tobe fent to Rome, at the 26 3 eapence, to fi 
; is d a high reputation, 
GRO 
piece of work, and by this means faften the part which con- 
tains the st to the other which contains the tongue. 
Groove alfo denotes a gardener’ s tool for tranf{plant- 
ing lowers 
Groov fete oe in dining fignifies a mine or fhaft, 
fometimes Mo called a 
Gr ROOV ae are a vd s of very coarfe flannel, which 
the miners wear when at work ; often their whole drefs con- 
news. peo in Mining, fignify the Petes s or Assn 
2 wi hee in 
GROOZD ’ et 1 
Rutfians to a © Ipecs of a le *rofemblin = ts on : 
efcribed by Lifter, fist 
“The Ru broad and Chicks and 
and endanger fuffocation. 
aply, a town of C haste 
Defiau, the Folue 12 miles 
“GROS, Pes Sse ag rs 
ETER L¥,in Biogra an: ane i was 
horn at Paris in 1666. 1 esas neal his f; ei 
the art of eign, and ot enealy age te hy Soil sande 
but the 
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