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John Ellis FRS (c. 1710 – 15 October 1776) aka Jean Ellis was a British linen merchant and naturalist. Ellis was the first to have a published written description of the Venus flytrap and its botanical name.
John Ellis was an eighteenth-century naturalist known for being the first person to publish a description of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) after specimens were sent from North Carolina to Britain in 1769.
In October 1767, Ellis was the lynx-eyed naturalist whose skill with a microscope would open the study of microorganisms as he had zoophytes. In 1768 Linnaeus wrote that Ellis's history and description of the Venus's fly-trap were so com- plete nothing could be added. Later in 1772, Linnaeus expressed his gratitude for Ellis's correspondence:
Oct 15, 2015 · John Ellis, an English naturalist, died Oct. 15, 1776, at the age of about 66. In 1769, Ellis wrote a letter to the great Carl Linnaeus, describing a new plant that had come to his attention. Linnaeus was the world’s recognized authority on all things botanical,...
In 1754 John Ellis was elected to the Royal Society. During the next twenty two years, he won the Copley Prize in 1768, was elected to the Council in 1769, and published over thirty essays and monographs on natural history.
May 31, 2018 · John Ellis (1710–1776) was a naturalist and London business man with an interest in science. He became the most successful plant transporter of the eighteenth century.
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John Ellis was recognised as the first modern marine biologist and won a number of prizes from the Royal Society during his life. The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes clearly and finally established the animal nature of marine animals such as corals, gorgonians and starfish; permanently separating them from the taxonomy of ...
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