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„Societät in Dublin“ ihm еше goldene Medaille verliehen hat, 
die dort wie ein Orden getragen wird, und dass seine Freunde 
eine Medaille mit seinem Bildnisse haben prägen lassen (Vgl. 
nebenstehende Abbildung derselben). 
Bei seiner Ankunft in Edinburgh erfuhr Giesecke, wie es 
mit seinen im Jahre 1807 von den Engländern genommenen 
Sammlungen gegangen war. 
Tromas Attan hat in einem Bericht: „Memorandum respec- 
ting some Minerals from Greenland‘, gelesen den 20. April 
1812, folgende Schilderung von dem Zustande gegeben, in 
welchem er sie vorfand !): 
„The minerals filled no less than nine or ten old boxes 
and barrals: a few specimens were wrepped in coarse paper, 
but a scanty supply of dry medow moss was the only other 
material with which they were prevented from injuring each 
other. Before I examined them they were turned out on the 
floor of a merchants warehouse in Leith and lay such a spec- 
tacle of uninvited rubbish that they were thought wholly un- 
worthy of attention by all those who had previously seen them, 
which principally arose from the very great quantity of rubbish 
and water-worn stones, many of them covered with marine 
insects, with which the collection was loaden...... | саге- 
fully examined each separate specimen, and after thrown aside 
1) Annals of Philosophy. London 1813. Vol. I. $. 99. 
