VI ADVERTISEMENT 



As much as any other man at that time Dr. Schoepf 

 seems to have made North America his study. The 

 following are his most important contributions touch- 

 ing this Continent: Ueber Klima, Witterung, Leben- 

 sart und Krankheiten in Nordamerika ; 2 Von dem ge- 

 genwartigen Zustand in Nordamerika aus dem Lande 

 selbst, im Jahre 1783 ; 3 Vom amerikanischen Frosche ; * 

 Der gemeine Hecht in Amerika, and Der nordameri- 

 kanische Haase ; 5 Beschreibung einiger nordameri- 

 kanischen Fische, vorziiglich aus den newyorkischen 

 Gewassern ; 8 Materia Medica Americana, potissimum 

 Regni Vegetabilis ; ' Beytrage zur mineralogischen 

 Kenntniss des ostlichen Theils von Nord Amerika ; 8 



Library Bulletin, Cincinnati, 1903. Rosengarten, The German 

 Soldier in the Wars of the United States. Philadelphia, 1890. 

 Pp. 91-98. 



2 In Meusel's Hist. Literatur, 1781; appearing also, modified, 

 as a prefix, Reise II. Translation of the original pamphlet by 

 Dr. J. R. Chadwick, Boston, Houghton, 1875, Svo. pp. 31 



3 In Schloezer's Staats-Anzeigen, VII, 1785. Four articles. 



4 In Naturforscher, No. 18. 

 3 Ibid., No. 20 (1784). 



6 In Schrift. der Berliner Gesellschaft Naturforschender 

 Freunde, No. 3 (1788), p. 138 ff. "The first special ichthy- 

 ological paper ever written in America or concerning Ameri- 

 can species." Goode, Beginnings of Natural History in 

 America, Smithsonian Institution Report, 1897, II, 396 (Nat. 

 Museum). 



' Erlangen, 1787 ; Lloyd Library Reproduction Series, Cin- 

 cinnati, 1903. The first treatise in that department, and the 

 authority well into the nineteenth century. 



8 Erlangen, 1787 " Commonly regarded as the first work on 

 American geology." Merrill, Contributions to the History of 

 American Geology, Smithsonian Institution Report, 1904 (Nat. 

 Museum), p. 208. 



