Martin Lister

It read: Near this place is buried the body ofMARTIN LISTER,Doctor of Physick, a Member of theRoyal Society, and one ofQueen Ann's Physicians,who departed this life,the second day ofFebruary 1711–12.Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known that he invented the histogram, provided Newton with alloys, and donated the first significant natural history collections to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.As a conchologist he was held in high esteem, but while he recognised the similarity of fossil mollusca to living forms, he regarded them as inorganic imitations produced in the rocks.[1] In 1683 he communicated to the Royal Society (1684[9]), an ingenious proposal for a new sort of maps of countries; together with tables of sands and clays, such as are chiefly found in the north parts of England.In this essay he suggested the preparation of a soil or mineral map of the country, and thereby is justly credited with being the first to realise the importance of a geological survey.This writer appears to have been the first who was aware of the continuity over large districts of the principal groups of strata in the British series, and who proposed the construction of regular geological maps.[11] His series consists of c. 1260 volumes dating from the 16th to 18th centuries, their topics ranging through medicine, anatomy, natural philosophy, and botany, as well as into voyages and travel.
Lister's mother, Susan (or Susanna) Temple , later Lady Lister (1620), by Cornelius Johnson .
Title Page of Martin Lister's Historiae Animalium Angliae (1678), from Digital Bodleian
Plate from Historiae Conchyliorum (1691).
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