GREW, NEHEMIAH 0641-171 2 ), English plant anatomist and physiologist, son of Obadiah Grew (1607-1688), Noncon formist vicar of St. Michael's, Coventry, was born in Warwick shire. He graduated at Cambridge in 1661, and took his M.D. at Leyden in 1671. He then settled in London as a practitioner. In 1672 he published his Anatomy of Vegetables Begun and in 1673 his Idea of a Phytologixal History. Four years later he be came secretary of the Royal Society. In 1682 appeared his famous Anatomy of Plants with seven appended papers on chemistry. Grew died in London on March 25, 1712.
See L. C. Miall, The Early Naturalists (1912).