Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/van Loot, Gerard

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Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

van Loot, Gerard

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Edition of 1900. No confirmation of this person's existence outside of Appletons' and derived sources has as yet been located, but there is also no verifiable source which states the person is one of Appletons' fictitious entries. Use this information with extra caution. There is a marked incompability in that the subject was supposedly Dutch, but the titles of the alleged literary works are written in German.

4492077Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — van Loot, Gerard

LOOT, Oerard yan (lote), Dutch naturalist, b. in Muyden in 1705; d. in Breda in 1761. He ob- tained employment in the Indian company, and re- sided most of his life in Java and Dutch Guiana, retiring in 1753 and settling in Breda. He pub- lished " Anweisung wie man die Breite und Lange der Flilsse aus gemeinen Landkarten erforschen konne"(2 vols., Breda, 1754); " Guiana geognostisch und geologisch dargestellt " (1755) ; " Grundlehren der Anatomie und Physiologic der amerikanischen Pflanzen " (1757) ; " Naturen Bloeme " (1757) ; " Historia generalis plantarum guianarum in quae famili;e per tabulas disponuntur" (2 vols., 1758); "Die Naturgesehichte von Amerika " (1760); " Handbuch tiir den Kaufmann in Guiana" (1760) ; and several other works.