144 CHAPTER 38. 
Mountains, and others introduced by the 
care of M. Fagon. 
It is to Sherard alfo, that the learned 
owe the publication of Herman's Para- 
difus BatavuSy contineiis plus centum Flantas 
affabre /Ere indfas, et Defcriptionibus illuf- 
tratas'^ Lugd. Bat, 1698. He wrote 
a preface to this work, in which he relates 
the difficulties he met with, in reducing the 
author's papers into method ; and which 
contains an account of other works of 
Herman. This preface is dated from G^- 
iieva^ in April 1697 ; at which time, I ap- 
prehend, Shekard was on his third tour, 
on the continent. 
In the year 1700, Mr. Sherard com- 
municated to the Royal Society a Method 
of making feveral China Varnifhes, which 
were fent from the Jefuits in Cblna to the 
Great Duke of Tufcany. It was publiflied 
in the Philofophical "TranfaBlonSy N" 262. 
Vol. xxii. p. 525. And the next year he 
communicated to the Society a paper from 
Dr. J. DEL Passa, on the poifonous Ef- 
feds of the hidian Varnifh on the human 
Skin ; which on the naked Skin of Poultry 
proved 
