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published “‘Reisen in Siidlichen Amerika” (2 vols., Dresden, 
1754); ‘‘ Neueste Reisen durch Amerika”’ (2 vols., 1755); Grund- 
ie der Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen” (2 vols. 
Berlin, 1756); ‘‘ Neueste Geschichte und Beschreibung des Brod- 
baums” (1758); ‘‘Flora Cubana, exhibens characteres generum 
et specierum yeaa circa Havana crescentium” (2 vols., 
Leipsic, 1758); ‘ riptogamae Brasilienses ab Nascher collectae, 
cui additus es in quo terminis artis breviter exponuntur”’ 
(1760); “Bilder und Skizzen der Umgebungen von Havana” 
(Berlin, 1762); “Land und Leute der Insel Cuba” (1762); 
and several other works. 
[Wholly fictitious. Comments upon some of the titles are 
given above under ‘“Kehr’’ and ‘“Kerckhove.” One title was 
evidently suggested by Forster’s ‘Geschichte und Beschrei- 
bung des Brodbaums”’ (1784), but why a ‘German naturalist” 
who resided and traveled in the American tropics should have 
written upon such a subject in 1758 does not appear. The 
breadfruit tree is widely distributed in the islands of the Pacific, 
but was first introduced into tropical America in 1793; an 
expedition sent to the Pacific by the British government suc- 
ceeded in landing living trees at St. Vincent and Jamaica in 
that year. 
NEE, Isidore aria oe (nay), West Indian botanist, 
b. in St. Martin, W. L., in 1784; d. in Paris, France, in 1837. 
He received his eduen on in New Orleans, returned in 1808 to 
‘the West Indies, and in the spring of 1810 went to South America. 
After visiting Guiana and the important cities of Brazil, he sailed 
for Lima, explored the Andes, and ascended the volcanoes Pichin- 
cha and Chimborazo. In 1814 he went to Mexico, where he 
sojourned several years, devoting his time to researches in librar- 
ies. He then settled in France and published “Flora Mexic ama, 
seu. genera et species per quae in Mexico Crescent” 
(2 vols., Paris, 1827); ‘“‘Les volcans des Andes de PEquateur; 
une ascension du Pichincha et du Chimborazo” (1829); Mémoire 
sur les hiéroglyphes Mexicains” (1830); and ‘‘ Etudes sur ’analo- 
ie de I’écriture cunique et des hiéroglyphes Egyptiens et Mexi- 
cains’’ (1832). 
[The name is evidently in part compounded from those of 
Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788-1850) and Luis Née, both well- 
known botanists; but the rest of the sketch is wholly fictitious. ] 
