Editing Erasmus Darwin (section)

=== Botanical works and the Lichfield Botanical Society ===
[[File:Portrait detail, Erasmus Darwin. Stipple engraving by Holl, 1803, after J. Ra Wellcome V0006492 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Erasmus Darwin in stipple engraving by Holl, 1803, after J. Rawlinson]]
Darwin formed 'A Botanical Society, at Lichfield' almost always incorrectly named as the Lichfield Botanical Society (despite the name, composed of only three men, Erasmus Darwin, [[Sir Brooke Boothby]] and Mr John Jackson, [[proctor]] of [[Lichfield Cathedral]]<ref group="notes">fl.&nbsp;1740s–1790s. Also Bookseller and Printer in Lichfield. When Darwin left Lichfield in 1781, Jackson took over his botanical garden. {{harv|Desmond|1994|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA377 Jackson, John p.&nbsp;377]}} {{harv|Seward|1804|loc=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2fQ0AAAAMAAJ/page/n85 p.&nbsp;70]}} His daughter, Miss Mary A(nn) Jackson of Lichfield {{harv|Britten|Boulger|1889|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=b9lCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180 p.&nbsp;180]}} (fl. 1830s–1840s), was a botanical illustrator, {{harv|Desmond|1994|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA377 Jackson, Mary Ann p.&nbsp;377]}} and author of ''Botanical Terms illustrated'' (1842) and ''Pictorial Flora'' (1840)</ref>){{sfn|Uglow|2002a}}{{sfn|Uglow|2002b}} to translate the works of the Swedish botanist [[Carl Linnaeus]] from Latin into English. This took seven years. The result was two publications: ''A System of Vegetables'' between 1783 and 1785, and ''The Families of Plants'' in 1787. In these volumes, Darwin coined many of the English names of plants that we use today.{{sfn|George|2014}}

Darwin then wrote ''[[The Loves of the Plants]],'' a long poem, which was a popular rendering of Linnaeus'  works. Darwin also wrote ''[[Economy of Vegetation]]'', and together the two were published as ''[[The Botanic Garden]]''. Among other writers he influenced were [[Anna Seward]] and [[Maria Jacson]].