Note 23 — Chapter II · Artificial Systems and Terminology of Organs from Cesalpino to Linnaeus. 1583-1760.
Henry E. F. (Henry Edward Fowler) Garnsey translation
John Ray, born at Black Notley in Essex, was also a zoologist of eminence. He studied theology and travelled in England and on the continent, and afterwards devoted himself entirely to science, being supported by a pension from Willoughby. See Carus, ‘Geschichte der Zoologie,’ p. 428.