Appletons' 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.