Memoirs of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea belonging to the society of Apothecaries of London / by Henry Field.

  • Field, Henry, 1755-1837.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Memoirs of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea belonging to the society of Apothecaries of London / by Henry Field. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Samuel Doody, F.E.S. skill and efficiency in the care of the Garden during all this time superseded the necessity of any particular interference on the part of the Society. As Mr. Doody was a man of con- siderable eminence both as a scientific medical practitioner and as a Botanist, a short biogra- phical notice of him may not be unacceptable. He was a native of Staffordshire, but he settled in London as an Apothecary, and there is reason to believe that he acquired considerable practice. His botanical studies must have been principally confined to the examination of the plants growing in the vicinity of the metropolis, but his diligence in this pursuit was unex- ampled, particularly in the investigation of the flowerless or cryptogamous plants, his knowledge of which was superior to that of any other person of his day. The early editions of Bay’s Synopsis bear ample testimony to his labours. In the preface to that work (2nd Edit.) Mr. Bay notices him in the following terms, and the commendation of so distinguished a naturalist is a sufficient proof of Mr. Doody’s great merit: “ Samuel Doody, Pliarmacopceius Londinensis, qui et opus ipsum plurimis speciebus ditavit; et alias, etiam turn species, turn observationes appendici reservavit. Hon minus perspicax in