"A royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, Martin Lister was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and mollusks. Disappointed with the work of established ...

Martin Lister (1639-1712) was an English naturalist and physician, and Anna Marie Roos is a scholar of his life and work. Martin Lister and His Remarkable Daughters: the Art of Science in the ...

Click here for the slideshow. When the English naturalist and physician Martin Lister wrote home from France to his wife Hannah in 1681, he explained that he was enclosing a box of oil colors for his ...

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Early life and letters, 1639-1663 -- French connection: the voyage to Montpeillier, 1663-1666 -- Lister's early contributions to natural history, 1666-1668: the influence of John Ray -- Spider threads ...

In the east cloister of Westminster Abbey is a marble tablet to Jane Lister, daughter of Dr Martin Lister F.R.S. eminent zoologist and physician of York and his wife Hannah (or Anna) Parkinson. She ...

When the English naturalist and physician Martin Lister wrote home from France to his wife Hannah in 1681, he explained that he was enclosing a box of oil colours for his oldest two daughters, 11-year ...