4.36 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
notes of consequence were added by him to the 
Hortus Malabaricus.. 
Caspar Commelyn, a nephew of the former, and 
Professor at Amsterdam, was born 1667, and died 
December 25, 1731. He followed the footsteps of 
his uncle *. 
Rudolph Jacob Camerarius, Professor at Tue- 
bingen, born February 18, 1665, and. died 11th 
September, 1721. Besides some dissertations and . 
small treatises, inserted in the Acta Academiae 
Natur. Curiosorum, he has not published any great 
work on botany. Since Pliny philosophers had 
spoken of the sexes of plants, but nothing certain 
had been said. Camerarius made the first experi- 
ments on the subject. 
Paul Hermann, born at Halle in Saxony, July 30, 
1640; was for 2 long time physician at Ceylon ; 
he went afterwards to the Cape of Good Hope, and 
returned with a full collection of rare plants to Hol- 
land, where he became Professor at Leyden, and 
died ee 25.) LOIS. 
beleas 
eticones. Opus posthumum a Fried. Ruyschio et Fried. Kig- 
gelario. Amstelod. 1697. fol. The plates are beautiful, and 
the descriptions accurate. 
* Casp. Commelini Flora Malabarica. Leyd. 1696. in fol. 
et 8vo.. Ejusdem Praeludia botanica. Amsterdam. 1701 et 
4702. ato. Of the large work of his uncle, he published the 
second volume 170?. fol, 
+ Pauli Hermanni Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi cata- 
logus. Leyd. 1687. 8vo. 
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