, father of the preceding, once a pupil of Boerhaave, and professor of botany at Amsterdam,
, father of the preceding, once a pupil of Boerhaave, and professor of botany at Amsterdam,
employed much labour and expence in editing various botanical works, particularly those giving accounts of plants
procured from the Indies. In 1736 he published an edition
of Weinman’s Herbal, to Which he added several plates
with African plants. His next publication, in which he
had the assistance of Linnæus, then a young man, was the
“Thesaurus Zeylanicus, exhibens Plantas in Insula Zeylana nascentes, Iconibus illustratus,
” 4to, Rariarum Africanarum Plantarum Decades Decem,
” 4to, principally from Witsen and Vanderstell, to which, however,
hemadeseveral additions. He translated Rumphius’s great
work into Latin, which he enriched with valuable notes,
and published under the title of “Everhardi Rumphii
Herbarium Amboinense, continens plantas in ea, et adjacentibus Insulis repertas.
” His last labour was procuring
engravings to be executed from the drawings of American
plants left by Plumier, to which he added descriptions,
with the modern and former names. He died at a very
advanced age in 1779. It must not be forgot that he was
one of the earliest and kindest patrons of Linnæus, and
when the latter, who had been introduced to him by Boerhaave, pleaded his poverty as an excuse why he could not
remain at Amsterdam, Dr. Burman boarded and lodged
him at his house for a considerable time, free of all expence. He was not always so liberal, or even courteous
to strangers of eminence, according to the account of Dr.
Smith in his Tour, p. 29.