James Petiver

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James Petiver (vers 1663-1718) est un pharmacien anglais, membre de la Royal Society et du Temple Coffee House Botany Club, connu pour ses travaux de botanique et d'entomologie.

Petiver a reçu de nombreux spécimens de plantes et de graines et d'autres documents de divers correspondants dans les colonies américaines. Ses collections sont conservées au Musée d'histoire naturelle de Londres.

Œuvres

Musei Petiveriani centuria prima-decima, rariora naturae continens: viz. animalia, fossilia, plantas, ex variis mundi plagis advecta, ordine digesta et nominibus propriis signata, London, 1695-1703.
An account of some Indian plants etc. with their names, descriptions and vertues; communicated in a letter from Mr. James Petiver...to Mr. Samuel Brown, surgeon at Fort St. George, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, 1698.
An account of part of a collection of curious plants and drugs, lately given to the Royal Society of the East India Company, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, 1700-1703.
James Empson (éditeur), Jacobi Petiveri Opera, historiam naturalem spectantia containing several thousand figures of birds, beats, fifh, reptiles, insects shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungus's, mosses, sea-weeds, &c. from all parts, adapted to Ray's History of plants on above three hundred copper-plates, with English and Latin names, London, 1767.