ANGUILLARA’S BoTANICAL GARDEN 367 
Meyer remarks (4: 262) “ the position of Privatdocent among us 
seems to have had its beginning in this of Ostensor simplicium,”’ 
The three first at Padua to be recorded as Ostensor were Aloysius 
Mundella Brixianus (of the generation older than Anguillara 
apparently, his only printed works appearing in 1538, at Basle, by 
Isengrin,—being corrections of Galen and of Brasavola) ; Aloysius 
Anguillara, 1549-1551, Pierantonio Michiel, 1551-1555 (so dated 
by Marsili, 1771, saying that he greatly enriched the garden; a 
contemporary letter of Aldrovandi also speaks of Michiel as in 
charge of it); Anguillara again, 1555-1561; Melchior Guilandini 
1561, who was made Lector simplicium in 1561 through the exer- 
tions of Fallopius, and held it till his death in 1589; under him 
in 1563 a definite Collegium botanicum of Padua was first recog- 
nized; after him came Prosper Alpinus, “6th prefect,” the cele- 
brated investigator of the plants of Egypt. 
Third of these simultaneous positions was that of Custos horti, 
or Director of the Garden ; usually united with the preceding, 
but which Anguillara is said (by Marsili) to have held earlier, 
from 15.46 onward, or three years before he is mentioned as 
Ostensor. 
Marsili (‘““Votisie del publico giardino de semplici di Padova,” 
Written 1771, fide Meyer, though first printed by Visiani, at Padua 
™ 1840) names Anguillara as first director of the garden, and 
Monti mentions him as the means by which the garden became 
built up on Buonafede’s magnificent plan, the plan adopted by 
Venice in 1545. Anguillara is said to have been Buonafede’s 
Choice to execute this plan, so the date 1546 seems none too early 
for his beginning. He had doubtless been practically engaged a 
Similar work du ring the period 1539-1544, which he had spent - 
nical work with Ghini at his private garden at Bologna, and it 
Was doubtless partly on that account that Anguillara was spoken 
of by a contemporary as a director of great experience. Now he 
anticipated Ghini in working out the establishment at Padua of 
* garden, of all botanical gardens the first, it has been said, to 
be maintained at public expense. The next year, however, 1547, 
Ghinj himself secured a similar formal establishment for his garden 
m Pisa, founded by the government of Florence, which was Lame 
| oes believed, says Monti, “by the recent example of the mos 
