into circumftances o f great diftrefs, by that exterminating rage
which prevailed at that time between the French and the Eng-
lifh. He collected objeils o f natural hiftory in that country ;
and is going to publilh a Fauna and Flora Quineetifis. He is alfo
a proficient in oriental languages.
Mr Acharius, who has publifhed fome trails on the mofles and
lichens, under the title o f Lichenographia; in which work he is
indebted to the affiftance o f Mr. Swartz.
Mr. Norberg; this gentleman has travelled a great deal in Ruf-
fia, and is efteemed a very ingenious and ikilful mechanic. He
has made feveral improvements in the fleam engine, and given
other proofs o f mechanical invention.
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Interior Phyfics, and Experimental Philofophy.
Mr. Von Engeilrom, already noticed in the academy o f belles-
lettres.
Mr. J. G . Gahn, o f Fahlun: he is an excellent metallurgiil,
and acquainted with all the principal experiments in metallurgy,
as well as with books on that fubjedt in different languages. He
is the moil engaging and interefling gentleman in Fahlun, on
account both o f his general knowledge and his polite and elegant
hofpitality.
Mr. Hielm, a chemifl blindly devoted to the fyftem o f Berg-
mann.
Baron Von Gedda, formerly an accurate experimenter; but he
has
has lived till he has become very aged, till he has lofl his f ig h t ;
and what is more mortifying— his fame.
Mr. J. Gadolin, a very good chemifl, and author o f a treatife
on the elements o f chemiflry.
Mr. Julin, an apothecary ; his admiflion into the academy was
the reward o f his meteorological obfervations at Ullaborg, which
were made with great diligence and accuracy : he is a good and
adlive collector in natural hiftory.
Mr. Brollng, who has been in England for the purpofe o f feeing
the mines, and becoming acquainted with the methods which
are ufed in that country o f working them : he paffes in Sweden
for the inventor o f a flexible catheter, made o f elaftic gum ; and
alfo o f a folution o f iron for ftamping names or any other mark
on linen cloth, without injuring it. He imported from England
the fecret o f pulreriiing Peruvian bark and other fubftances ; on
which account it is believed he was forced to quit that country.
Mr. Edelcrantz, already noticed in the Swedifh academy ; he
is a kind o f butt to both academies. Guftavus III. called him
Lyren-krantz ; but the fecretary o f ftate, Schroderheim, obferved,
that he ought to be called Mufen-lrantz, which in Swedifh implies
a rifible double fignification.
Mr. Sioften, a young man, as well in years as in the ftudy o f
phyfics; he has tranflated into the Swedilh tongue Cavallo’s
Theory o f Electricity.
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