Career
He is best known for his work on the Polish cochineal (Porphyrophora polonica), an insect formerly used in production of red dye. Proposed by Hans Sloane, he was elected, on 21 April 1703, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Johann Breyne
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Membership
Royal Society; German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]
He was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (after 1715) and the Societas Litteraria (after 1720).
