JONSTON (John), a learned Polish naturalist and physician, born in 1603. He travelled all over Europe, and procured esteem every where by his knowledge; afterward he bought the estate of Ziebesdorf in the duchy of Lignitz in Silesia, where he spent the remainder of his days. He wrote a natural history of birds, fish, quadrupeds, insects, serpents, and dragons, in folio; a piece upon the Hebrew and Greek festivals, a thaumatography, and some poems. He died in 1675.