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JOHN JACOB DILLENIUS was born at Darm-stadt, Germany, in 1684. He studied at the University of Giessen, like several of his family before him. At an early age he became a member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum and contributed several papers to the Miscellanea Curiosa of that Society from the year 1715 onwards: among other matters these dealt with American species of plants which had become naturalized in Europe; Arabian coffee and his own ersatz preparations made by roasting peas, beans, kidney-beans and rye, the last being barely distinguishable from the real thing; the examination of mosses and other cryptogams with the view of ascertaining their sexual organs; and an experiment made with opium he had prepared from Papaver somniferum grown in Europe. He also wrote on leeches and butterflies.
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RAMSBOTTOM, J. Early Botany at Oxford. Nature 145, 993–996 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145993a0
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