HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. 435 
Heinrich van Rheede tot Drakestein, born 1635, 
died December 15, 1691. He was governor of the 
Dutch settlements in the East Indies, and resided 
chiefly in Malabar. He procured drawings of the 
principal plants by the first artists, and described 
them and their use in the following works*. 
Christian Menzel was born at Fuerstenwalde in 
the Marc Brandenburg, June 15,1622. He is said 
to have travelled a good deal on purpose to examine 
the different plants of his native country. Possessed 
likewise great skill in a variety of foreign languages, 
and was even well acquainted with the Chinese. 
Menzel was physician to his Majesty at Berlin, and 
died November 16, £701f. 
Johann Commelyn, a Dutchman, and Professor 
of Botany at Amsterdam, has written principally on 
the plants cultivated in the garden there. His most 
elegant workt{ was published after his death. Many 
notes 
Ejusd. Prod#omus rariorum plantarum fasciculus I. IT. 
Gedani, 1739. 4to. with 32 plates. This work was pub- 
lished by his son John Philip, a physician at Danzig, who 
has likéwise written several botanical treatises. — 
* Rheedi Hortus Malabaricus Indicus, cum notis et com- 
mentariis Joh. Commelini. Tom. I---XII. 1676, 1693. fol. 
with 794 very splendid plates. His descriptions are very ac- 
curate and faithful. Very scarce. 
+. Christ. Menzelii Index plantatum multilinguis, seu Pinax 
botanonimos polyglottos. Berolin. 1682. fol. with i1 plates, 
which represent 40 plants, not in a very superior style. Scarce. 
{ Joan. Commélini Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum 
¢am orientalis quam occidentalis Indiae plantarum descriptio 
et 
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