"The Uffenbach brothers are in Leiden, visiting the widow of the former professor of botany Paul Hermann. He comments on her miserable condition. The best of her late husband's curiosities she had given to the Hortus Botanicus; Uffenbach refers to the description of these curiosities by Misson [RKDexcerpt nos. 774996-7749967]. Benthem in his "Orte" mentions a Latin catalogue. The widow of Hermann gives them a handwritten catalogue of this collection, including a number not in Benthem's copy: "40. Conchae anatiferae" (barnacle shells)."