NATURALISTS AND VOYAGERS MENTIONED xlvii 



FERNANDEZ, Juan (died 1576), Spanish navigator, appears to have 

 been constantly employed as pilot off the coasts of South America. 

 He discovered the islands bearing his name about 1572, and in 1576 

 reported another large island or continent, which has not been 

 identified. 



FOTHERGILL, John, M.D., F.R.S. (1712-80), was a Quaker, and the 

 first graduate of Edinburgh to be admitted as a licentiate of the 

 College of Physicians (1744). He was greatly interested in botany, 

 and possessed a magnificent botanical garden at Upton, near Stratford, 

 where he kept many draughtsmen. He also made large collections of 

 shells and insects. His " Hortus Uptonensis " was published amongst 

 his "Works" after his death in 1783-84. 



FRE"ZIER, Ame'dee Frangois (1682-1773), engineer and traveller, 

 born at Chambe'ry, was descended from the Scotch Frasers. He was 

 sent out by the French king in 1711 to examine the Spanish colonies 

 in South America, and on his return in 1714 published his "Relation 

 d'un Voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili et du Perou" 

 (1716). He was afterwards Director of Fortifications of Brittany, and 

 was the author of several works on architecture. 



HASSELQUIST, Fredrik (1722-52), Swedish naturalist and pupil of 

 Linnaeus. He spent three years (1749-52) travelling in Palestine 

 and Egypt, and made large collections of fishes, reptiles, insects, plants, 

 and minerals, studying also Arab manuscripts, coins, and mummies. 

 He died at Smyrna, and his collections passed into the hands of 

 Linnaeus, who published Hasselquist's journal and observations under 

 the title of " Iter Palestinum " (1757). 



HISTOIRE des Navigations aux Terres Australes, see Brosse. 



HULME, Nathaniel, F.R.S. (1732-1807), was Physician to the 

 Charter-house. 



LE MAIRE, Jacob (died 1616), Dutch navigator, left Holland in 

 company with William Cornelissen Schouten (died 1625) in 1615, in 

 the Concorde, with the view of determining the position of the southern 

 point of South America, in defiance of the regulations of the Dutch 

 East India Company, which attempted to close the routes to India, 

 either by the Cape of Good Hope or the Straits of Magellan. Le 

 Maire and Schouten discovered Staten Island and Cape Horn, which 

 they doubled, and thence proceeded to Batavia, passing along the 

 north-east coast of New Guinea. On their arrival at Batavia, their 

 ship was seized and they were sent to Holland, but Le Maire died 

 before reaching Europe. Schouten published an account of the 

 voyage in 1618. 



