Samuel Doody was a member of the Royal Society from 1695. He was a botanist who stored many of his dried specimens in Sloane’s herbarium, and was the curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1963 until his death in 1705.
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Samuel Doody to James Petiver, Date Unknown, Sloane MS 4066, f. 327, British Library, London.
Samuel Doody, Fellow Details, The Royal Society, [https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Doody,%20Samuel%27%29, accessed 17/08/2017)
B. D. Jackson, Doody, Samuel (16561706), rev. Ruth Stungo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7825, accessed 17/08/2017])
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