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 memoires de l’academie des sciences de l’Institut de France Académie des sciences.
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Laurent Garcin to Hans Sloane, 1731-07-30, Sloane MS 4051, f. 289, British Library, London.
Laurent Garcin, Wikipedia, [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Garcin, accessed 22/08/17]
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