BURMAN, John, a distinguished Dutch physician, son of the preceding, born at Amsterdam in 1706. He studied the physical sciences at Leyden with such success, that in 1738 he was appointed professor of botany at Amsterdam in room of the celebrated Ruysch. His merits as a botanist were such, that Linnaeus, who was under many obligations to him, called a genus of plants after his name, Burmannia. His dissertation de Chylopoiesi was published at Leyden in 1728, and his Thesaurus Zeylanicus at Amsterdam in 1737. At this latter city he died in 1780.