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L'HERMITE, Jacques (died 1624), Dutch Admiral, was sent out in 

 1623 by the States- General in command of eleven vessels (the Nassau 

 fleet, so named after Prince Maurice of Nassau) to attack Peru. The 

 expedition did not meet with much success, and L'Hermite himself 

 died at Callao. He appears to have previously served under the Dutch 

 East India Company. 



MARCGRAV, George (1610-44), German physician and traveller, 

 accompanied Piso (q.v.) and the Prince of Nassau to Brazil in 1636, 

 where he travelled for six years. The results of his discoveries are 

 embodied with those of Piso in the " Historia naturalis Brasilia " 

 (1648). He afterwards went to the coast of Guinea and there died. 



MASKELYNE, Nevil, F.R.S. (1732-1811), was sent by the Royal 

 Society to St. Helena to observe the transit of Venus in 1761, 

 but the phenomenon was obscured by clouds. He was after- 

 wards Astronomer-Royal (1765) ; and to him we owe the "Nautical 

 Almanac," the publication of which he superintended for forty-five 

 years. In 1769 he observed the transit of Venus from Greenwich. 

 Later, in 1784, Maskelyne strongly supported Dr. Charles Hutton 

 against Sir Joseph Banks, then President, during the dissensions in 

 the Royal Society (see p. xxx.) 



M 'BRIDE, David (1726-78), medical writer, advocated the use of 

 fresh wort or infusion of malt as a preventive of scurvy at sea, a 

 specific adopted by Banks on this voyage. It was, however, soon after 

 superseded by Lind's lemon juice. 



NARBROUGH, Admiral Sir John (1640-88), was sent out to the 

 South Seas in 1669. Passing through the Straits of Magellan, he 

 sailed as far as Valdivia and then returned home. He was present at 

 the battle of Solebay (1672), and after some years of service, died at 

 Saint Domingo, whither he had gone, at the instance of the Govern- 

 ment, to search for treasure. 



NASSAU FLEET. See L'Hermite. 



OLDENLAND, Henry Bernhard, Dutch naturalist, author of " Catalogi 

 duo plantarum Africanarum " in the "Thesaurus Zeylanicus" (1737). 



OSBECK, Pehr (1723-1805), Swedish naturalist and traveller. 

 He studied natural history, and on the recommendation of Linnaeus 

 was appointed chaplain to a vessel of the Swedish East India Company, 

 in which he visited China, and, on the return voyage, Ascension. 

 Osbeck published his observations under the title of " Journal of a 

 voyage to the East Indies, 1750-52, with observations on the natural 

 history, language, manners, and domestic economy of foreign peoples " 

 (1757). 



