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the sporophyte generation and is genetically distinct from the pollen grains, which belong to the

gametophyte generation.

31. Grew, The Anatomy of Plants, Book IV, ch. V, p. 173.


32. Boccone, P.  (1697), Museo di piante rare della Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, Italia, Piemonte e
    Germania con figure 133 in rame, Venetiis, apud Ioannem Baptistam Zuccarum.


33. L.  C. Miall (1912), The Early Naturalists, Their Lives and Work, 1530– 1789. Macmillan,
    p.  168. Cited by LeFanu, William (1990), Nehemiah Grew:  A  Study and Bibliography of His
    Writings, St. Paul’s Bibliographies, Winchester, Omnigraphics, Inc., p. 17.


34. Hunter, Establishing the New Science, pp. 261– 278. Hunter has pointed out that Grew’s
    finances during the period of his research for the Royal Society were extremely tenuous because
    of the unreliability of voluntary support from the Society’s members. Because of this, he oscil-
    lated between botany and medicine, finally opting to pursue the more lucrative profession of
    medicine. The need to support himself may explain why he abandoned botanical research soon
    after completing his anatomical studies and never tested his hypothesis concerning the sexual
    role of pollen.


35. R.  J. Camerarius is unrelated to the famous herbalist from Nuremberg, Joachim
    Camerarius the Younger (1534– 98).


36. The War of the Grand Alliance (1688– 97), also known as “The War of the League of
    Augsburg” and “The Nine Years War,” pitted the armies of Louis XIV against those of the prin-
    cipalities of Germany and their European allies.


37. Sargent, R.- M. (1995), The Diffident Naturalist. University of Chicago Press; Wojcik, J. W.
    (199 7), Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason, Cambridge University Press.


38. McClellan, J. E. (1985), Science Reorganized. Columbia University Press, p. 114.


39. The complete citation is: Academiae Caesareo Leopold. N. C. Hectoris II. Rudolphi Jacobi
    Camerarii, Professoris Tubingensis, Ad Thessalum, D. Mich. Bernardum Valentini, Professorem
    Giessensem Excellentissimum (1694), De Sexu Plantarum Epistola, Tubingae: Rommeius.


40. Personal communication, Dr. Gerd Brinkhus, Library of the University of Tübingen.


41. Elvin, Transferring the Impulse of Life.


42. From: Sturmius, M. Johann Christophorus (1687), Diducendi alias uberius Argumenti De
    Plantarum Animalium; Generatione. Altdorff, Literis Schönnerstaedtianis. p. 14– 15. Translated
    by M. Elvin.


43. Malebranche, The Search after Truth.


44. Pinto- Correia, C. (1997), The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation. University
    of Chicago Press, p. 6.


45. Prévost, A.– M. (1965), Rapprochement entre l’Epistola de sexu plantarum de R.  J.
    Camerarius (1694) et les Observations sur la structure et l’usage des principales parties des fleurs
    de Geoffroy le Jeune. Compt. Rend. Séances Acad. Sci. 261:2045– 2048.


46. Based on marriage records of the Camerer family located at the Tübingen Rathaus
    (City Hall).


47. Sturdy, D. J. (2002), Fractured Europe, 1600– 1721. Blackwell Publishers.


48. The terms “monoecious” and “dioecious” were introduced by Linnaeus many years later.
    Camerarius called them simply Class II and Class III.


49. Elvin, Transferring the Impulse of Life. Section 1, Excursis 4, p. 269.