Edward Lhuyd

Edward Lhuyd FRS (1660 – 30 June 1709), also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, herbalist, alchemist, scientist, linguist, geographer, and antiquary. He was the second keeper of Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum and published the first catalogue of fossils, the Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia.

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