Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737) was a Catholic priest and Italian botanist. He studied under Bruno Tozzi and in 1706 was appointed botanist to Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Micheli’s Nova plantarum genera was published in 1729 and marked a development in the knowledge of fungi.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Antonio_Micheli [accessed 14 April 2017]).
Jacob Theodor Klein (1685-1759) was a Royal Prussian jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician, and diplomat who worked for August II, King of Poland. He was Secretary to the Senate of Danzig and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Theodor_Klein [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Paul Jacques Malouin (1701-1777/8) was a French physician and chemist. He entered the Académie des sciences in 1742 and was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Jardin du Roi in 1745. Malouin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753 and in the same year purchased the position of médecin de la reine for 22,000 livres. In 1770 he was made physician to the Dauphin.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jacques_Malouin [accessed 14 April 2017]).
Edward Butler (d. 1745) was the President of Magdalen College, Oxford. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University between 1728 to 1732.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Butler_(academic) [accessed 14 April 2017]).
Johann Friedrich Weidler (1691–1755) was a German astronomer and mathematician.
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(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Weidler [accessed 16 April 2017]).
Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705-1783) was a German historian and ethnologist. In 1725 he was invited to St Petersburg to establish the Imperial Academy of Sciences. From 1733 to 1743 he travelled across Siberia with other scientists collecting ethnographic information. Müller was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1730 and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1761.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Friedrich_Müller [accessed 16 April 2017]).
John Peter Stehelin (d. 1753) was Minister of the French Chapel at Hammersmith. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1739.
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(https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27stehelin%27%29 [accessed 16 April 2017]).
Isaac Hellenbroek was an art dealer. He was the son-in-law of Professor Frederik Ruysch through his marriage to the flower painter Anna Ruysch.
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(http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ruysch [accessed 17 April 2017]).
Juriaen Pool (1665-1745) was a Dutch painter. He was the son-in-law of Professor Frederik Ruysch through his marriage to the flower painter Rachel Ruysch.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juriaen_Pool [accessed 17 April 2017]).
James Justice (fl. 1730-1757) was a horticulturalist of Creighton, Scotland. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1730 at the behest of John Martyn, Philip Miller, and Sir Hans Sloane.
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(https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27justice%27%29 [accessed 17 April 2017]).