THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 

 PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL. 



On the Life and Writings of the late Professor Rudolphi. By 

 his successor. Professor Mulleii of Berlin.* 



The individual reffardiniic whom I have the honour this dav 

 of addressing the Academy, was one of that class now rarely 

 met with in the history of the natural sciences, who combine a 

 solid and productive cultivation of a variety of branches with 

 a rare erudition in these departments. Had he been called 

 away from the career of his development in the very bloom of 

 his strength, it would have been difficult for us to say, if he 

 was greater in the external natural history of organic bodies, 

 or in their internal natural history, that is their anatomy ; and 

 Avhether he had produced more valuable contributions to the 

 anatomy of plants or of animals. When the advancement of the 

 sciences rendered limitation necessary, and when a most labo- 

 rious appointment required the constant employment of his ac* 

 tivity in the natural history and anatomy of animal bodies, this 

 original diversity of his acquirements still animated his later 

 labours, and imparted to them a freshness, whose absence we 

 have too often to regret in the writings of anatomists. 



Carl Asmund Rudolphi, Royal Medical Privy-Councillor, 

 Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Friedrich-Wil- 

 helms University, and in the Medico-Chirurgical Military Aca- 

 demy, Director of the Anatomical Museum and the Anatomical 

 Theatre, Member of the Scientific Deputation for Medical Af- 

 fairs, Member of the Academies of Sciences of Berlin, Stock- 

 holm, Petersburg, and Naples, Knight of the third class of the 

 Order of the Red Eagle, and of the Swedish Order of the North 



* Read at tlio public ineotin^ of tlie Berlin Academy of Sciences, Au- 

 gust C. 1830, and published in the Berlin Transactions 1837- 

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