"In Stirpes Aliquot Novas et Minus Cognitas Horti R. Academici. Praelectae D. II. Martii, A. MCCCLXXXII." In Commentationes Societatis Regia Scientiarum Gottingensis, vol. V. - 1783

Gottingen:: Ioan. Christ Dieterich, 1783., 1783. 4to. xii, [xvi], 102, 64, 136, 54 pp. Title page vignette, 1 chapter head vignette, tailpieces, 5 engraved folding botanical plates, 3 engraved mathematical plates (1 folding); moderate foxing, early ex-library rubber stamps on plates. Later quarter tan calf, boards, gilt spine, brown leather spine label, new endleaves. A fine copy. Murray's work is an attempt at Linnean classification of rare and unusual plants in the genera lysimachus, veronica, scabiosa, and celosia. Murray, a Swede, was one of Linnaeus' favorite students. He took his medical degree at the University of Gottingen and was appointed professor of medicine there and inspector of the university's botanical garden. He translated many of Linnaeus' works and his teaching powerfully influenced the succeeding generation of botanists. See: Blake, NLM, 317; BM (Nat. Hist.), III, p. 1382. This volume also contains contributions on botany, physics, mathematics and ancient inscriptions by: Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804), Joh. Beckman, Heinrich August Wrisbert, Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner (1719-1800), Alb. L. Fr. Maister, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch, Christoph Meiners, and more. CONTAINS: Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner (1719-1800), De Dentibus Rotarum qui Iunguntur Paxillis Rotundis. [On wheel teeth joined by pins]. / [Egypt] Aegyptiaca Complexum. Interponitur Indicium de omni historia Aegyptiacam eius fontibus et vaussis et de modo ac ratione eam interpretandl. / Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812), De Fontibus et Auctoribus Historiarum Diodori et de eius auctoritate . . . [on Diodorus Siculus, the Greek historian, fl. first century BC] / [Herodotus] Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727-1799), De Herodoti ac Thucydidis Thracia. . . . Commentatio Geographica. Pars altera: De Thracia Australi, er eius quidem Orientali parte, seu Thracia posterioris aeui proprie dicta. / Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch (1726-1784), De Michaelis Glycae Aetate commentatio. / [Greek weaponry] Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812), Nova Armorum Inventa in Vetere Graecia quid ad rerum summam profecerint. Commentatio recitata . . . / Jo. Matthia Gesnero, Inscriptiones Aliquot Pocockianae illustratae . . . Commentatio I.