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containing many new genera, not to be found in 
Linnzus ; yet the characters are short and unsatis- 
factory ; and, strange to say, he nowhere uses spe- 
cific names. Scheeffer was a clergyman of Ratisbon, 
and lived to the age of seventy-two; but, although 
industrious, his abilities were very moderate. 
(21.) While entomology was thus advanced by de- 
scribers and painters, the disciples of Linnzus were 
returning from their travels, and pouring into the lap 
of their master the innumerable novelties they had 
discovered in distant regions. Hasselquist, who had 
been travelling in the East, published his narrative 
in 1757. Osbeck returned from China, loaded 
with its plants and animals. Forskal* was no less 
zealous and successful in investigating the little 
known tracts of Egypt and the shores of the Red 
Sea: and Sparmann+ travelled both to Southern 
Africa and China. ‘The treasures collected by these 
enterprising and accomplished travellers went to 
augment the accumulating materials of Linneus, 
and rapidly swelled the bulk of each succeeding 
edition of his Systema Nature. It is really surprising 
to witness with what rapidity this celebrated man 
could arrange and incorporate materials so numerous 
and so varied, as they came pouring in upon him 
from all quarters, and which, to ordinary men, 
would have been perfectly overwhelming. While 
Zoology was thus proceeding with rapid strides upon 
* Forskal, P. Descriptiones Animalium, &c., que in Iti- 
nere Orientali observavit. 1775. 4to.—Icones Rerum Natu- 
ralium quas in itinere Orientali depingi curavit. 1776. 4to. 
+ Sparmann, A. Museum Carlsonianum. Holmiz, 1786 
—1789. Four parts, forming 2 vols. small folio. 
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