Letter 4299

Garcin requests that Sloane help Monsieur Bourguet procure books on the Protestant Gospel. Bourguet was honoured by ‘l’Academie des Sciences de Berlin’. Garcin hopes to see Bouguet in Neuchâtel to discuss botany and natural history. Laurent Garcin (1683-1752) was a physician and botanist. He studied in the Netherlands and served as a naval surgeon from 1720 to 1729, traveling throughout the East Indies. He described plants from Java, Malacca, Persia, and Arabia. Garcin sent Indian and Chinese medical information to Herman Boerhaave. He settled in Leiden and corresponded with Antoine de Jussieu and others, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1731. Garcin’s work was published in the Mémoires de l’académie (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Garcin).