I’m not about to pretend that I presently know much about Edward Lhwyd. However even from the little I’ve learned recently, it has become very clear to me that he is most certainly someone about whom I wish to know more – much more, in fact. After all, as a naturalist myself who harbors interests in both antiquarian studies as well as philology, how could I not wish to know more about the life someone from the seventeenth century who was an enthusiastic botanist as a child, attended Oxford University where he spent considerable time in its Botanical Garden, and through diligent study and work was eventually appointed the second keeper of the then newly established Ashmolean Museum?
