John Ray - Naturalist, known as the father of English natural history.
The terms genus and species acquired their specialized biological usage from Linnaeus's predecessors, in particular Ray and Tournefort.
John Ray (1627–1705), who wrote his last name as Wray until 1670, English naturalist sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history
1674: John Ray's Collection of English Words includes written record of the Cheshire dialect.
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Coles' dialectal entries are mostly collected from the glossary by John Ray with some additions from the Dictionarium Rusticum in John Worlidge's 1669 Systema Agriculturae.
The first reference to this species came in John Ray's 1690 Synopsis, which recorded the discovery of a rare fern near the summit of Snowdon in Wales by Edward Lhwyd.