4 Prof. K. F. H. Marx's Memoir of the Life and 



cations of greater or smaller works which were showered upon 

 him from far and near, and which were partly effusions of gra- 

 titude, partly marks of respect and admiration ? 



Among the vast number of dissertations which have ap- 

 peared at Gottingen, the best have been produced under his 

 auspices. I would direct attention to the words of veneration 

 and love spoken of Blumenbach by the elder Sommerring in 

 his celebrated inaugural dissertation.* 



When his scholar Rudolphi, in conjunction with Stieglitz 

 and Lodemann, also his pupils, applied to the medical men of 

 Germany, in order to commemorate worthily the Doctor- Jubu 

 leum of their great master, all, whose guide he had been, either 

 as a teacher or an author, came forward as one man, and tes- 

 tified their respect by means of a medal,t and the foundation 

 of a travelling salary. J The naturalists, on their side, endea- 

 voured to shew their sense of the services rendered by the 

 Nestor of their science, and named after him animals, plants, 

 and minerals. It gave him peculiar happiness when, on the 

 morning of his jubilee, the 18th September 1825, his colleague 

 Schrader brought him the drawing of the new genus Blumen- 

 bachia (insignis).§ 



* Be Bail Encephxli. Goett. 1778, 4to. With Baldinger's Program. : Epi- 

 tome NeurologisePhysiologico-Pathologicse, and in it from the Vitae Curriculo 

 of Sommerring, p. 15: Exc. Blumenbach in zoologia universa, mineralogia, 

 physiologia pathologica, historia hominis specially turn in fatis medicinoe tra- 

 dendis non tantum praiceptor mihi contigit optatissimus sed fautor quoque 

 insignis, qui familiarius etiam me uti dignaretur, ac pro ilia benevolentia 

 non tantum excursionibus ipsius zoologicis ac mineralogicis comitem me 

 saepius adhiberet, sed et in animalium vivorum sectionibus et experimentis, 

 qua; ille ad illustrandam physiologicara historise naturalis partem publice 

 Buis sumptibus instituebat, mihi quoque, ut ipse adjutrices quasi manus ad- 

 moverem, humanissime permitteret. 



t The dedication was : Viro illustri Germanise Decori diem semisecularem 

 Pbysiophili Germanici laete gratulantur. On the medal there was the re- 

 presentation of a European, an Ethiopian, and a Mongolian skull, with the 

 inscription : Naturce interpret!, Ossa Loqui Jubenti Physiophili Germanici. 

 19 Sept. 1825. 



; This salary amounted to 600 dollars, gold. See Gdtt. gel. Anz. 1829. 

 Part 73, p. 721. 



§ See Comment See. E. Sc. Gotting. vol. vi. 1828, p. 91-138. Blumen- 

 bachia multifida is figured and described in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 

 vol. Ixiv. 1837, fig. 3599. 



