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' Schola Botanica ; sive Catalogus Plantarum quas ab aliquot Annis 

 in Horto Regio Parisiensi Studiosis indigitavit Jos. Pitton de 

 Tournefort ut et Pauli Hermanni P. P. Paradisi Batavi Prodromus : ' 

 it is signed 'S. W. A.' (Sherardus Wilhelmus, Anglus), and the 

 preface is dated London, 1688. The 'Prodromus,' which Linnaeus, 

 in the list of authorities prefixed to the ' Flora Zeylanica,' styles 

 ' suppositious,' occupies pp. 301-386, with 4 pp. of addenda. In 

 the last year of his life, Hermann began to print a flora of Leyden. 

 Linnaeus* styles this 'Flora Lugduno-Batava, Lugd. 1695, 8vo, 

 semi impressa moritur cum Autore,' but it has no title, consisting 

 of 128 pp. dealing with 'Plantae Gymnospermae.' 



Hermann died of pneumonia at Leyden in January, 1695. 

 After his death his widow f seems to have intrusted most of his 

 MSS. to Sherard. The first result of this was ' Paradisus Batavus, 

 continens Plus centum Plantas affabre sere incisis & Descriptionibus 

 illustratis .... cui accessit Catalogus Plantarum, quas pro Tomis 

 nondum editis, delineandas curaverat Paulus Hermannus, M.D. 

 .... Opus Posthumum edidit William Sherard,' Leyden, 1698, 

 4to, pp. 262, with in plates. Sherard's preface, dated from 

 Geneva, April, 1697, relates the difficulties he met with in reducing 

 the author's papers into order, and gives an account of Hermann's 

 other works. The ' Paradisus ' is dedicated to Bishop Compton, 

 and a critical notice of it, sent by Ray to Sloane, is printed in 

 'The Correspondence of John Ray' (Ray Society, 1848, p. 349). 

 The ' Paradisus ' contains descriptions and drawings of Sinhalese 

 plants in addition to those in the ' Horti Lugduno-Batavi Cata- 

 logus,' but the drawings being in quarto are reduced from the 

 originals. In 1710 Hermann's 'Materia Medica'J was published 

 under the editorship of J. S. Henniger (Argentor. 4to), subsequent 

 editions by J. Boeder appearing in 1726 and 1729, and one by 

 Strother, London, 1736. In 171 1 there appeared ' Musaei Indici 

 catalogus, continens varia exotica animalia, insecta, vegetabilia, 

 mineralia, quae collegerat/ 8vo, a catalogue of his museum in the 

 Leyden garden; and in 17 17 the important little ' Musaeum 

 Zeylanicum, sive catalogus plantarum in Zeylana sponte nascentium 

 observatarum et descriptarum a viro celeberrimo, Paulo Her- 

 manno ....,' Leyden, 17 17, 8vo, pp. 71. In this pamphlet, to 

 which the term 'anonymous,' used by Dr. Trimen {loc. cit. p. 129), 

 seems scarcely applicable, the plants appear under their Sinhalese 

 names, but references to Boccone, Acosta, C. Bauhin, the 'Para- 

 disus Batavus,' and ' Hortus Lugd. -Bat.,' are added. In the 

 prefaee the editor, who is well known to have been Sherard, states 

 that, in addition to the three volumes of the herbarium, a fourth 

 would be made up, and pp. 39-71 are occupied by a list of 'alias 



* 'Flora Zeylanica,' " Autores," and 'Bibliotheca Botanica,' ed. 2, p. 58. 

 f Anna Gertrude Stomphius, daughter of a pastor of Colombo. Hermann's first 

 wife, Isabella Borman, died within a year of their marriage. 

 % ' Cynosura materiae medicss. ' 



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