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ton, and described them according to Linne’s me- 
thod. Died in 1783* ie 
George Eberhard maitnphitits was born at Hanau. 
He went as physician to the East Indies, where he 
became chief magistrate and president of the mer- 
cantile association of Amboyna, and collected care- 
fully all the productions of India, especially plants, 
but was, at an old age, unfortunate enough to lose 
his sight entirely, so as to judge of every thing by 
the touch only. Died 1706 i : | 
Johann Gottlicb Gmelin was born in 1710, at 
Tuebingen ; went at the advice of some friends in 
1727 to Petersburg, where he became a member of 
the academy there. He travelled through Siberia, 
and died: 1755. From the MSS. left by the unfor- 
tunate Steller, Gmelin published a work, the two 
last volumes of which appeared after his death f. 
John Hill, an Englishman, had an idea of getting all 
the plants mentioned by Linné engraved. This very 
Ejusd. rariorum Africanarum plantarum Decas I. IX. 
Amstel. 1738, 1739. 4to. with 180 plates, containing 215 figures 
of the scarcest plants. 
* Joh. Fried. Gronovii flora virginica. Pars I. et II. Lug- 
dun. 1743. 8vo. | | 
Ejusd. Flora orientalis. Lugdun. 1755. 8vo. _ 
+ Georgii Everhardi Rumphii Herbarium Amboinense. 
Tom. I.—VI. cum auctuario. Pekar 1750---1755. fol. with 
I °, plates. 
t Joh. Gottl. enon Flora iSibiica, Wom: Te-ohve Pette- 
pol. 1748, 1769. 4to. with 299 plates. ‘The two last volumes 
were published by his nephew Sam. Gottl. Gmelin, the fifth, 
however, which contains Cryptogamis, is not yet printed. 
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