452 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
Nicolaus Laurentius Burmann, who lately died, 
Professor of Botany at Amsterdam, was son of John 
Burmann. He used the great collection which his 
father left, entirely for the benefit of the science, and 
published part of it, according to the arrangement of 
Linne, his great master *. 
John Anton Scopoli, was born at Fleimsthal in 
Tyrol, 1722. Almost without any instruction he 
became by his own diligence a very great man, and 
an acute observer of nature. He was first physician 
at Idria, went afterwards to Schemnitz in Hungary 
as Professor, and lastly to Pavia, where he died 
May 3, 1788. By too frequent a use of the micro- 
scope, a year before his death he lost his sight. It is 
siugular, that a man whose whole life was a series, Asi 
it were, of misfortunes, should have done so much f. 
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, born 1739, 
a pupil of Linné, President of the Imperial academy, 
and Professor at Erlangen. One of the first bota- 
nists, whose great merits are universally acknow- 
ledged. His writings bear the mark of mature re- 
flection and just observation {. 
* N. L. Burmanni Flora Indica. Lugd. 1768. 4to. with 67 
plates, which represent 176 very scarce plants. 
¢ Joh. Ant. Scopoli Flora Carniolica. Tom. I. II. Vindb. 
1772. 8vo. with 65 plates. 
Ejusd. Deliciae Flore et Faunz Insubrice. Tom. I. II. et 
UI. Ticini 1786. fol. with 75 plates. An elegant work, of 
which only a few copies were printed. 
t J. C. D. Schreberi Spicilegium Flore Lipsiensis. Lipsiz 
1771. 8Vo 
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