HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. 44,5, 
fame as physician and natural philosopher, is known 
all over Kurope*. 
Engelbert Kaempfer, born in the county of Lippe 
in 1651. None of the older botanists ever travelled 
so extensively as he did. For he journeyed ten years 
in Russia, near the Caspian Sea, in Persia, Arabia, 
Hindostan, Coromandel, at the banks of the Ganges, 
in Java, Sumatra, Siam, and Japan, where he re- 
mained two years. During these travels he disco- 
vered and communicated to the worldt many new 
plants, especially of Japan. His work consists of 
five numbers, the last of which contains descrip- 
tions and figures of Japanese plants. The sixth num- 
ber, which contained 600 figures of scarce plants, 
growing at the Ganges, has been entirely lost. He 
died November 12, 1719. 
Louis ¥ouillée, a Franciscan friar, travelled to 
Peru and Chili. He published his very accurate 
journal, containmg his observations, and paid par- 
ticular attention to the officinal plantst. 
* Herrm. Boerhaave Index alter pl:ntatum horti academic 
Lugduno-Batavini. Pars. 1. I. Lugd. 1727. 4to. with 39 
plates, which represent mostly plants of the Cape. 
_ - Engelb. Kaempferi fasciculi quinque amoenitatum exoti- 
carum. Lemgo. 1712. 4to. with many plates, which however 
are not very neat. 
{ Louis Feuillée Journal des observations physiques, ma. 
thematiques et botaniques, faites par ordre du Roi, sux tes 
cotés orientales de 1’Amerique meridionale. Paris. Tom. J. if. 
(714. Tom. III. IV. 1725. 4to We have an extract of the 
botanical part in German. 
