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containing many new genera, not to be found in 

 Linnaeus ; yet the characters are short and unsatis- 

 factory ; and, strange to say, he nowhere uses spe- 

 cific names. Schaeffer 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- 

 scribes and painters, the disciples of Linnaeus 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 f travelled both to Southern 

 Africa and China. The treasures collected by these 

 enterprising and accomplished travellers went to 

 augment the accumulating materials of Linnaeus, 

 and rapidly swelled the bulk of each succeeding 

 edition of his Sy sterna Naturce. 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, qua? in Iti- 

 nere Orientali observavit. 1775. 4to. — Jcones Rerum Natu- 

 ralium quas in itinere Orientali depingi curavit. 1776. 4to. 



f Sparmann, A. Museum Carlsonianum. Holmia?, 1786 

 — 1789. Four parts, forming 2 vols, small folio. 



