Letter 1573

This letter was published as Phil. Trans. 1710, 27: 447-459. Breyne describes his experiences in Danzig, which have prevented him from maintaining his correspondence. He is currently preparing a book on rare and exotic plants. Breyne relays his medical and natural historical observations, made during his 1703 trip to Italy. He communicates a list of rare plants he observed in Italy, descriptions of towns including Livorno, Pisa, Florence, and Rome, and accounts of Italian universities, botanical gardens, and libraries. Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) was a German botanist, zoologist, and entomologist known primarily for his work on the Polish cochineal, or Porphyrophora polonica, used in red dye production. He became a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Breyne).