Edward Lhuyd, Welsh botanist, linguist, and geographer (born 1660)

Edward Lhuyd

Welsh scientist, geographer, historian and antiquary (1660–1709)

Edward Lhuyd, also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a Welsh scientist, geographer, historian and antiquary. He was the second Keeper of the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, and published the first catalogue of fossils, the Lithophylacii Britannici…