BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 



131, 138. Alpinus, Prosper, b. 1553 at Marostica, state of 

 Venice. 1580, followed the Consul George Ems, sent by 

 the Republic to Egypt. The first European to see, at Cairo, 

 and describe the coffee plant ; he made better known the 

 famous Balsamum of the Ancients. 1584, Doria, Prince of 

 Amalfi, the Commander, appointed him Physician to the 

 Fleet of Spain. Professor of Botany to the University of 

 Padua, and enriched its garden with the plants brought 

 from Egypt; d. at Padua, 1617. Chief works : De Medicina 

 JEgyptiorum, lib. iv.; De Bahama Dialogus ; De Plantis Egyptii ; 

 De Plantis Exoticis. (Biog. Univers.) 



129. Anguillara, Aluigi. Date and place of birth un- 

 certain ; travelled over the whole of Italy, Dalmatia, Illyria, 

 Slavonia, Macedonia, Greece, Cyprus, Crete and Corfu. 

 He botanised round Bologna in 1539, Pisa 1544 and 1545, 

 and was a friend or pupil of Luca Ghini, whom he calls 

 "Maestro" (see Biog. Universelle, torn, ii., art. by Du 

 Petit Thouars). Author of Semplici, edited by Giovanni 

 Marinello - Vinegia, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561 a Latin 

 translation with notes, by C. Bauhin. Basle, 1593. 



89. Bauhin, Caspar, b. at Basle 1550, d. 1624, studied under 

 Fuchs ; collected plants in Switzerland, Italy and France ; 

 Professor at Basle, 1580 Greek, 1589 Botany (see Haller 

 and Sprengel). Works : Pinax and Prodromus Theatri Botanki 

 (1620): fully distinguishes between Species and Genus; the 

 description of a single species is developed into an art and 

 becomes a diagnosis (Sachs). His Herbarium is still pre- 

 served at Basle (Meyer, iv. 267). Linnzus gave name 

 Bauhinia to genus of Leguminosa:. Conrad Gesner's letters 

 to Bauhin were edited by the latter. Basilex, 1594. 8vo. 



Bauhin, Johann, b. at Basle 1541, studied medicine 

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