John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue by P. H. (TRN) Oswald
John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue

John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue


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John Ray is considered the outstanding British natural historian of the 17th century. His first publication, "A catalogue of plants growing around Cambridge "(1660) is famous as the first British County Flora. It is a complex work, not only a botanical catalogue but also has for the benefit of beginners indexes of English names and of places (with lists of the rarer species of 12 areas in the county) together with chapters on the meanings of plant names and of botanical terms (hitherto untranslated). Ray s abilities as an all-round naturalist are apparent from the numerous observations and digressions in the text.

This book includes a complete translation from the Latin of the work together with the rare appendices to the Catalogue, published in 1663 and 1685, translated for the first time. The editorial commentary on the text is included in nearly 2000 footnotes which outline problems of translation, discuss the identity of some of Ray s more problematic species, identify his cited and some of his uncited sources and detail the treatment in his later works of some of the plant variants (such as colour forms) that he regarded as species in 1660. The translationis preceded by introductory chapters which use unpublished manuscripts and recently published studies to present a new account of Ray s time in the University of Cambridge and the possible roles of his collaborators.The work s structure and sources are analysed, biographical portraits of the botanists cited by Ray provided together with a discussion of the problems of equating his names to modern taxa. The book ends with a vocabulary of the epithets in Ray s Latin plant names, a gazetteer and a bibliography.

As Professor Oliver Rackham comments in his foreword, other editions and commentaries on the Cambridge Catalogue exist but none does justice to its complexity, its discursiveness, its allusiveness, the circumstances of its writing, its vast bibliography or Ray s other works associated with it as appendices or supplements . Ewen and Lewis 1975 translation was limited to the text considered relevant to a modern reader and excluded, for example, the chapters on technical terms and on etymology preventing a full assessment of Ray s work.

The authors both live in Cambridge and are Honorary Members of the Botanical Society of the British Isles and graduates of the University of Cambridge. Philip Oswald has a degree in Classics and Theology and Chris Preston a doctorate in Botany, thus combining John Ray s principal interests."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780903874434
  • Publisher: Ray Society
  • Publisher Imprint: Ray Society
  • Depth: 38
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 240 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0903874431
  • Publisher Date: 28 Nov 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 160 mm
  • No of Pages: 625
  • Series Title: Ray Society Publications
  • Weight: 750 gr


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