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He rejoined it at Acapulco in 1791, but soon left it again and 
explored the interior of Mexico as far as Lower California. After- 
ward he visited Peru, Chili, and the Argentine provinces, re- 
turning in 1795 to Europe, where he became professor of natural 
history at ne College of Gotha. He published ‘De Usu et 
er experimentorum in perficiendi historia naturali’’ (Prague, 
1787; revised and enlarged ed., Gotha, 1796); ‘‘Vermium fluvi- 
aun Americanarum, sive animalium infusorium helminthorum 
et testaccorum historia” (Gotha, 1796); “Flora Mexicana” 
(2 vols., 1798); “Flora Peruana”’ (2 vols., 1800); ‘Reisen durch ° 
Mexico und Siid-Amerika” (2 vols., 1801); “Compendium 
plantarum sponte crescentium circa C a ee in quo familiae 
per tabulas disponuntur” (2 vols., 1802); ‘‘Icones plantarum 
Americanarum rarium”’ (2 vols., 1803); and several less important 
works. 
[Wholly fictitious. The botanists of the Malaspina expedi- 
tion were Thaddaéus Haenke and Luis Née.] 
MORTIER, Edouard Louis (mor-te- ay), French naturalist, b. 
in Mulhouse in 1801; d. in Rio Janeiro in 1852. He was sent in 
1835 on a scientific mission to South America, and explored the 
Guianas, the United States of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and 
Brazil, returning to France in 1840. In 1843 he settled in Brazil, 
and became professor of botany and natural history in the 
College of Rio Janeiro, which post he held till his death. He 
published ‘‘Des origines des Indiens habitant |’Amérique du 
Sud”? (Paris, 1841); “Traité du tabac et du cacao’’ (1841); 
“Historia plantarum circa Cayenne sponte crescentium” (1843); 
“Prodomus florae Brasilicae, sistens enumerationem plantarum 
cellularium quae in insulA Santa Catilina crescent’? (2 vols., 
Rio Janeiro, 1849); “ Historia generalis plantarum Americanarum 
in qua familiae per tabulas disponuntur’”’ (2 vols., 1850); and 
several other works. 
[Wholly fictitious.] 
NASCHER, Friedrich Wilhelm Seat mel German natural- 
ist, b. in Noccue England, in 1702; d. in Paderborn, West- 
phalia. in 1764. He was a mean: resided several years in 
Havana, and, having made a fortune, followed his taste for 
travel. visiting Brazil and most of the Spanish possessions. On 
his return to Germany in 1752 he obtained employ ment at the 
court of the Prince of Reuss-Greitz, but, resigning a few months 
later, devoted the remainder of his life to the arrangement an 
publication of the material he had collected during his travels. 
