TOURNEUR very extensive collections of plants. In 1698 he was received as M.D. in the University of Paris. In obedience to another order, he proceeded in 1700 to the isles of the Archipelago, the coasts of the Black Sea, Bithynia, Pontus, Cappadocia, Armenia, and Georgia; making observations on natural history, ancient and modern geography, religion, manners, and commerce. In this learned voyage he spent three years, and then resuming his profession, was made professor of physic in the Royal College. He died in consequence of an accidental bruise of his breast by a cart-wheel, which brought on a spitting of blood and hydrothorax, that proved fatal on the 28th of November 1708.