John Ray Way: Sidetracked Traditional Cache
Hanoosh: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Brenda
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John Ray Way: Sidetracked
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This cache series is along the John Ray walk between Witham and White Notley stations and will continue to Braintree. The route will pass other caches already placed by other members. The caches do not have pens or pencils so please bring your own.
**THE CACHE IS LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE FENCING TO THE RAILWAY LINE - YOU SHOULD NOT BE CLOSE TO THE TRACKS WHEN SEARCHING**
John Ray (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".
He published important works on botany, zoology, and natural theology. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomous division by which species were classified according to a pre-conceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences that emerged from observation. Thus he advanced scientific empiricism against the deductive rationalism of the scholastics. He was the first to give a biological definition of the term species.
**After you have found the cache very carefully cross the railway and admire the view out over the River Brain.**
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