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door upon him. Disconcerted, Gaupp hurried home and mentioned the 
whole affair at dinner, observing that, after all, ** Mr. President Schreber 
was not a very polished man.” 
Schreber enjoyed an extraordinary degree of importance in all the town 
of Erlangen and its vicinity ; and when he appeared in the street, which 
rarely happened, he was saluted with much respect, which compliment 
he returned with ducal gravity. I saw him for the last time on the 
2nd November, 1810, when he passed my house wrapped in his ample 
scarlet cloak, lined with white fox's skin. He was soon after seized 
with a catarrh on his chest, from which he died with Christian resig- 
nation on the 10th December following. 
The subjoined exact copy of Schreber’s letter to Dryander, mentioned 
above (p.113), is inserted here by permission of R. Brown, Esq., Pre- 
sident of the Linnzean Society. 
Excellentissimo et experientissimo 
D. D. JONAH DRYANDRO, 
S. p. d. D. Jo. CHRIST. Dan. SCHREBER, Med. et Bot. P.P.O., &c. 
Tres elapsi sunt anni, ex quo Illustrissimo Banksio aliquas Disser- 
tationes, quas ab Illo desiderari, a cel. Fabricio, Prof. Kilon. intellexeram, 
et Tom. VIII. & IX. Ameenitatum Academicarum b. Praceptoris 
Linnei,a me editos, quorum priorem Viro Illustrissimo dedicaveram, 
misi. Nondum vero comperi, an hi libelli in Ejus manus pervenerunt, 
nec ne? Quare, quum Te, Vir Excellentissime! Illustrissimi Banksii 
familiaritate frui sciam, omni qua par est observantia abs Te mihi 
expeto, ut non solum hae de re me certiorem facere velis, sed etiam, 
num editionis reliquorum tomorum nove, quam paro, exemplar, quod 
pro bibliotheca Viri Illustriss. in charta belgica imprimi curavi, Ipsi 
offerre mihi liceat? edocere. Quatuor jam prodierunt, reliqui proxime 
sequentur. ar 
Benevolentiæ Tuæ commendo Virum Generosissimum, a quo has 
literas accipies, Baronem Berenger de Beaufain, Sereniss. Domui Saxon. 
a Consiliis intimis, ejusque filium, optimæ spei adolescentem. Mihi 
ipsi vero quoque favorem Tuum etiam atque etiam expeto, et ut sic de 
me habeas, rogo, me, qui Te Tuaque merita permagni facio, Tibi, 
et Illustrissimo Banksio, ad quæcumque officiorum genera semper 
futurum esse paratissimum. Vale. Dab. Erlangæ, die 14 Aug., 1788. 
