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were purchased after his death, for the Academy, by the royal Bavarian 
Government, for 12,786 florins. His turn of mind and earlier events 
in life brought him into communication with the Moravians ; and some 
maintain that he actually belonged to this sect. He received, in con- 
sequence, many contributions from the Danish West India Islands, 
from Tranquebar, Labrador, and Greenland. The collections made in 
North America by his friend and pupil Aulic-Counsellor Schöpf, sur- 
geon to the Baruthan troops, then in English pay, came, at the death of 
the owner, into his possession ; as did also, afterwards, those of the cele- 
brated Schmidel. Neither cost nor trouble were spared to procure 
materials for his ‘Natural History of Quadrupeds.’ This work was 
commenced in the year 1775 ; and the means accumulated for this 
work, through his extensive connections, were considered as extremely 
valuable. Not being able to publish the descriptions with the same 
rapidity as the plates were issued, he got into difficulties with his pub- 
lisher, and also with the publie, whieh were sometimes very perplexing 
to him. It was one of the leading works of its kind at the time. My 
valued friend Goldfuss, of Bonn, undertook afterwards, for a time, the 
continuation of the work. By a curious accident it got subsequently 
into the hands of my younger son Theodor, and his friend Mr. 
Pauli, a merchant. Prof. Andrew Wagner, of Munich, finally con- 
ducted the work to its conclusion ; and two of the gentlemen I have 
named, have the merit of having completed that which Schreber 
had begun seventy-one years before, by the aid of Walther, the book- 
seller. It is well known that Schreber showed his veneration towards 
Linneeus by an edition of the ‘Amenitates Academice’ (Erlange, 
1785), in 10 vols. 8vo. His secluded mode of living and unceasing 
activity, avoiding all social enjoyments, enabled him not only to produce 
so much of his own, but to assist in the production of works of other 
authors, e. g., the edition of the ‘Flora Indie Occidentalis’ of his 
friend Olaf Swartz, of Stockholm. 
At Upsala he had formed a friendship with the younger Burman, 
who, with Sir Jos. Banks, Sir J. E. Smith, and Solander in England, and 
Pallas and Georgi in Russia, became afterwards his correspondents. 
With several others, among them Schrank, Scheffer, and Roth, Schreber 
was elected an original honorary member of the newly established 
Royal Botanical Society at Regensburg. This society, which owed its 
origin to Hoppe, Stallknecht, and our author, held its first meeting on 
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