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CHAPTER 26. 
P L O T T. 
Dr. Robert Plott, eminent for being 
the firft who fketched out a plan for a na- 
tural hiftory of England^ by exemphfying 
it in that of Oxfordjhire and Staffordjhire, 
although not profeffedly a writer in the 
botanic line, cannot be omitted in a work 
of this kind. 
He was born at Borden ^ near Sitting- 
homey in Kenty and educated at JVye, in the 
fame county ; entered a ftudent iti Magda- 
len Hally in 1657; and, in 1671, took the 
degree of dodtor of laws. He became fel- 
low of the Royal Society ^ and was made one 
of the fecretaries in 1682. In the fame year 
he was conftituted the firft keeper of the 
AJhmoleanyVxxitxxmy and profefTor of chymif- 
try : all which places he kept till 1690 ; 
having alfo, in 1687, been appointed Mow- 
bray herald extraordinary, and regifter to 
the earl marfhal, or court of honour, then 
newly jrevived, after having lain dormant 
from the year 1641. He died April 30, 
1696. There is a whole length portrait of 
him. 
