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CHAP. 29. 
Petiver — Anecdotes of — Succejsful in colleHing 
a mufeum of natural curiofities — His works 
— Centuriae — Gazophylacium — Middlefex 
plants — Plantse Chinenfes — Switzerland 
Pterigraphia — Englifli Herbal — Various other 
lijls — and fapers in the Philofophical Tranf- 
a£lions. 
PETIVER. 
CONTEMPORARY with Plukenet 
lived Mr. James Petiver, of Vv^hoin 
too little intelligence is remaining. 
It appears that he was apprenticed to 
Mr. Feltham, apothecary to St. Bartholo- 
mew's HofpitaL He entered into bufinefs 
for himfelf in Alder/gate Street y where he 
lived the remainder of his days. He be- 
came apothecary to the Charter Honfe, and 
obtained a confiderable fhare of pradice in 
his profeffion. 
He had an early propenfity to thefe ftudies, 
and, excepting Mr, Courten, and Dr^ 
Sloan E, feems to have been the only one, af- 
ter 
