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Hippuris. Thus iu these parts the S. N. ed. 6 had undergone 

 no verv great modification. With the third Order, the Testacea, 

 it Is different. This had beeu greatly romodelled; at the side 

 of 229 Patella, 281 Cypraaa, 2'S2 Haliotis, 233 Dentalium, 234 

 Xaiitilus, the two enormous genera: 230 Cochlea and 235 

 Concha, have becn dissolved iuto a series of uumerous new 

 genera, most of them afterwards finallv adopt^d. Thus the 

 whole of the Order is thoroughly altcred; it is evident the 

 studies at Drottninijholm had done their work. 



The choice collectiou of books on Xatural History which 

 then formed ])art of the (^uecn"s librarv at lier palacc is uow 

 in that of the Academy of Scienees. and iu it the copv used 

 by LiNNvEUS of his favourite autlior ou Conchology, tlie »Am- 

 boinische Rariteiten-Kammer» of RuMniius, Amsterdam 1705 '). 

 On thirty one of its plates, from XIX to XLIX, at 215 of 

 their llgures, 1 found uames, written with a lead-pencil, faded 

 uow, l)ut all leo-iblc, in the well-knowu hand of Linn^eus as 



') In the Mexnander MS of 173:? it is said: iSolo tactu, visu 

 ffitate iugravescente destitutus, colores conchyliorum dignoscere poterat, 

 hinc oculatissimns csbcus passim audit»-. »Nullus indefesso magis studio 

 atqiie diligeiitia ludia; Gazophyllacia Natuiaj perquisivit, cujus rei lucen- 

 tissimum tcstimonium exstat Museum Amboiuense quod in Conchiliorum 

 historia reliquis omnibus, qua; de Testaceis prodiere. longe palmam pra^- 

 ripuit». Amicu. Acad. IV. p. 114. — GEORGE EvERHARD KuMPHius, a ger- 

 man, bom in 1027 on the domains oi' the Counts of Solnis, vvas the son 

 of a builder at Hanau. Ilaving there completed his studies and obtained 

 the degree of M. D., he spent three years in Portugal, and perhaps iu 

 Brazil, and iu bis 25th vear eniisted as cadet in the service of the Dutch 

 East India Corapauy. Having landed, in the luiddle of 1653, at Batavia. 

 he was soon afterwards sent to Amboina, and made ensign and surveyor 

 of the public buildings. But military life not being to his taste he iu 

 1657 entered the civil service in the quality of Under-Merchant to the 

 Oompany. and, since he liad Ijecome known as a man of great rectitude. 

 thoroughly skilled in Arabic as well as versed iu various scienees, and 

 well acquainted with the mode of dealing witb the Amboinese, he was 

 in 1060 promoted to the ofiice of Merchaut. While honourably dischar- 

 ging the functions of that post. he declared, however, that these were 

 only a mask he was compelled to wear in order to earn his livelihood. 

 and that researches in Natural History, which he regarded to be of more 

 importance, had formed the sole niotive for bis being there. During many 

 years he had worked with unremitting ardour on his great Herbarium 

 Amboinense, when, in 1670, cataract deprived him of his sight. The 

 Oompany, unwilling to lose his highly valued services, in the following 

 year appointed him President of one of its civil Courts, and iu that oflice 

 he remained for the rest of his life coiistautly devoting all his leisure 

 hours to studies and researches. In the great earthquake which devasta- 

 ted the Island on the 17 of February 1674, he löst his wife and youugest 

 daughter, and in the beginning of 1687 a conflagration that destroyed 

 the Dutch quarter of the town consumed a large part of his coUections 

 and librarv, and all the oriy-inal figures belongiue to the first half of the 



