James Petiver - Works

Works

  • Gazophylacium (1702-6) - an illustrated catalogue of British insects
  • Papilionum Brittaniae Icones (1717) - included 80 British butterflies
  • 1698 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.
  • 1700-1703 - 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
The standard author abbreviation Petiver is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.

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