ment he has given up his literary labours, and turned his attention
to another occupation, by which he may perhaps, render himfelf
more ufeful: this is a manufactory for making and printing linen
cloth. I have noticed above that the mufoum o f the academy
was formerly entrufted to his- care, but that he has been fuc-
ceeded in. that office by Dr. Quenzel.
Mr. Retzius, a profeifor in the univerfity o f Lund. He has
pubhlhed a fyftem o f mineralogy, by which he has acquired fome
reputation, though it is faid to be founded chiefly on compilation.
In the preface to this book he acknowledges that he is not intimately
converfant with the lyftem o f Lavoifir.
Mr. Odman, a clergyman, and profeifor at Upfala, well verfod:
in geography, and editor o f different voyages and travels. He is
the author o f a treatifc intended to explain feveral paffages in the
foered foriptures by the aid o f natural: hiftory. He is accounted
an excellent philologift, as well as a good naturalift: he is pro-
foundly {killed in Hebrew and Arabic: he is an an univerfal’
fcholar, and his name is famous throughout all Sweden. Being
oppreffed with melancholy, he never ftirsfrom his chamber. One
day, being ftrongly afflicted with this, indifpofition, he fent to one
o f his friends to borrow fome, books o f any fort to amufe him :
his friend, knowing his tafte, fent him a cheft full o f voyages and
travels. He is particularly noted for a comprehenfive and tenacious.
memory, and by means o f this, and his great reading, he has
acquired a more accurate knowledge o f many remote parts o f the
globe than thofe who have actually travelled in them. He forms
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in his mind an abridgment o f all the books he reads ; and is, in
ihort, a living encyclopaedia.
Mr.,Von Carlfon, who has a cabinet o f natural hiftory,. which
contains a great collection o f fluffed birds. He is very conver-
fant in ornithology. He has bequeathed by will his collection to
the academy, and it is on this ground that he was chofen a
member.
Mr. Hornftedt, who has made a voyage to Batavia, and thence
imported fome natural curiofities.
Mr. Swartz, juftly celebrated throughout all Europe as a diftin-
guiihed botanift. He excels particularly in the clafs o f crypto-
gamia. T o his literary merits he adds the advantage o f obliging
manners, and o f a communicative and generous dilpofition.
Mr. Fahlberg, phyftcian to the Swedilh fettlement in St. Bar-
thelemi, from whence he font fpecimens o f natural productions to
the academy at Stockholm.
Mr. Paykull. He is the author o f a verfion o f Anacreon from
the French tranflation, for he does not underftand the original
Greek. He has alfo publilhed fome theatrical pieces, viz. Odenf-
warman, Virginia and Domuld, which are not thought by any
one to be above, and by fome rather below, mediocrity. T he
work entitled Fauna Suenia is not fuppofed to be entirely his own
compofition.
Mr. Afzelius, lately returned from Sierra-Leone, in Africa, where
he refided for the fpace o f four or five years: he there was the
proprietor o f a fmall piece o f ground, from which he was driven
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