Edward Lhwyd, the second Keeper of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
Edward Lhwyd (Lhuyd) (c. 1659/60-1709) - The second Keeper of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, Edward Lhwyd was an important naturalist, archaeologist, and linguist. He published the first catalogue of English fossils, the Lithophilacii Britannici Ichnographia (1699), in a limited edition of 120 copies, and many of the specific fossils he illustrated survive still in Oxford's collections
Picture No
13047588
Media ID
44500504
Size
5487px x 7473px
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Credit
©Ashmolean Museum / Mary Evans
Source
Pen and Ink drawing from The Book of Benefactors'
Date
circa 1700
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