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order to collect fishes or birds. On the winter holidays of this 

 year he made journeys to Amsterdam, Harlem, and Ley den, in 

 wliich he visited Temminck, as well as the elder Voigtius, who 

 sold him many natural objects, among which were several that 

 he had never seen before. He also met with other learned men, 

 such as Brugmans, the Leyden professor. Van Marum, a medi- 

 cal practitioner at Harlem, and others. He also stayed several 

 days in the town of Lisste, with Temminck, in order to collect 

 the animals of that district, and dissect them. 



During the Whitsuntide vacation, he made an excursion to 

 the island of Rottus, where he not only obtained many natural 

 objects, but also made an agreement with the keeper of the island, 

 that he should transmit to him whatever might chance to be cast 

 ashore upon it. The consequence of these journeys was an a- 

 bundant supply to almost all the collections in Germany of seals 

 and rare marine birds. 



When he had returned home during the summer vacation of 

 1817, he acquired a knowledge of many expensive works in the 

 library of the Society of Wetterau, and, during the same vaca- 

 tion, he made a trip from Hanau to Heidelberg, where he met 

 with Tiedemann, a very accomplished and learned man, who fa- 

 voured him with useful advice regarding his studies, and pre- 

 sented him with some of his celebrated works. By this time he 

 had acquired so eminent a name in his own country, that he was 

 elected a member of the Natural History Society at Marburg, as 

 well as of that which has been instituted at Hanau, under the 

 name of the Wetterau Society, for promoting the study of every 

 department of Natural History. And, in the end of the follow- 

 ing year, on the 20th December 1818, he was made a member 

 of the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolinse, under the name 

 of Johnson. 



On the 12th August he passed the Rhine, accompanied with a 

 large party, in which were Leonhard and his family, and return- 

 ed to Groningen, by Newied, Duisburg, Utrecht, Leyden and 

 Amsterdam. At Newied he was introduced to Prince Maximi- 

 lian, lately returned from his journey through Brazil, who re- 

 ceived him very graciously. In the same manner he was re- 

 ceived at Utrecht by Professor Freimer. Passing through Ley- 

 den he so gained upon the regard of Brugmans, that after he^ 



