xlviii JOURNAL OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS 
LHeruire, 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. 
Marceray, 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 Brasilice” 
(1648). He afterwards went to the coast of Guinea and there died. 
Masxetyne, 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‘Bripz, 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superseded by Lind’s lemon juice. 
NarsrovuaeH, 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 Furet. See L’ Hermite. 
OLDENLAND, Henry Bernhard, Dutch naturalist, author of “Catalogi 
duo plantarum Africanarum” in the “ Thesaurus Zeylanicus” (1737). 
Ospeck, Pehr (1723-1805), Swedish naturalist and traveller. 
He studied natural history, and on the recommendation of Linnzus 
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). 
