"I this day delivered my Discourse concerning Forest-trees to our Society upon occasion of certain Queries sent us by the Commissioners of his Majesties Navy: being the first Booke that was Printed by Order of the Society, & their Printer, since it was a Corporation: " Diary, 15 October 1662
John Evelyn, author of Sylva, by Godfrey Kneller c. 1687
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