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James Petiver
James Petiver (1663-1718) was a London apothecary, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his study of botany and entomology. He named the Red Admiral butterfly after a British Naval Flag and named Fritillary after a chequered dice box.
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