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long toiled in India, and are not wholly unacquainted with its lan- 
guages, can form an adequate idea of the awful mistakes, which are too 
frequently committed with regard to vernacular names, either fabri- 
cated for the nonce, and therefore totally false, or wofully mis-spelt, 
and still further mutilated by being latinized. 
With respect to the ‘ Erinnerungen,’ I may be permitted to remark, 
that it is a work full of interest from its first page to the last, ex- 
tending over a truly Hectorean lifetime, and is written in a peculiarly 
easy and agreeable style. The amiable and venerable author, as he 
had lived, so did he gently and peacefully “ fall on sleep,” on the 12th 
December, 1849, iu his ninety-second year. The translation has been 
made from p. 143 to 151 consecutively ; a few extracts have also been 
made from other parts of the work. Finally, these notices were read 
before the meeting of the Linnean Society, held on the 19th February, 
1850, chiefly to occupy a little spare time which happened to offer 
itself.—N. W.] 
Schreber had been professor in the Medical Faculty of the Univer- 
sity of Erlangen since the year 1769, and took, therefore, deservedly 
the lead among naturalists there. His deportment was grave, 
measured, and aristocratic. On the 23rd December, 1791, he suc- 
ceeded Delius as President of the Imperial Academy Nature Curioso- 
rum: an honour to which he had an undoubted claim, as a pupil of 
the great Linnzens, as a man of extensive science, and as a productive 
and sterling author. His multifarious knowledge rendered him pecu- 
liarly valuable to a university in which one and the same professor had 
to teach several sciences. Schreber was accordingly attached to two 
faculties. In that of medicine, he gave demonstrations in botany, 
physiology, dietetics, and materia alimentaria; whilst, in the philoso- 
phical faculty, he had to deliver lectures on rural economy, technology, 
political economy, and even on polity. He was deeply versed in astro- 
nomy, and pursued with much zeal the researches of Sehróter; he was 
master of the Greek and Hebrew languages, and wrote Latin with 
classical elegance. Notwithstanding this profound erudition, he never 
became a popular teacher. In his lectures he mostly confined himself 
to his compendious manuscript, from which he read, illustrating his 
subject by an oecasional exhibition of some object of nature, or by a 
few brief observations. It was evidently his anxious care not to expose 
any vulnerable points in his doctrine, whereby he might compromise 
