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
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