William Withering
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William Withering FRS was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and first systematic investigator of the bioactivity of digitalis.
William Withering
Edgbaston Hall
Illustration from An Account of the Foxglove
Pocket microscope by Withering
Lunar Society Moonstones
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The Moonstones are a set of nine carved sandstone memorials to various members of the Lunar Society. Made in 1998, and unveiled in March 1999, they can be viewed in the grounds of the Asda supermarket
William Withering
…foxgloves and Witheringia solanaceae carved upon it to commemorate his discovery and his wider contribution to botany. He is also remembered by one of the Lunar Society Moonstones in Birmingham and by a blue plaque at Edgbaston Hall. Birmingham University School of Medicine established a Chair of Medicine post in his honour, named…
Moonstones around edge of car park
Josiah Wedgwood's stone
Darwin
Galton