Sherilyn Fenn had a role in The Shining.
John Ray -LRB- 29 November 1627 -- 17 January 1705 -RRB- was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists .. English. England. naturalist. 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 .. botany. botany. zoology. zoology. natural theology. natural theology. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum , was an important step towards modern taxonomy .. taxonomy. Taxonomy ( biology ). 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 .. species. species. He was the first to give a biological definition of the term species .. species. species