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native country, I have been over Hungary, Transilvania, Bohe- 
mia, Styria, Carinthia, Italy, Sweden, Norway and the Faröe 
Islands. I undertook a journey to Greenland in the Spring of 
1806 and have examined during seven years, that wast and 
interresting country, no less than four times from Cap Farwell 
in lat. 59°16’ to Gletschers in lat. 76°4 and am at present 
returned from these mountains hitherto almost unknown, with 
an immense quantity of fossils, many of them new and inte- 
resting“. 
„Ihe length of my residence in that conntry is the reason 
which prevents me from furnishing more satisfactory testimonies 
of my capacity and of my conduct, which are equally necessary 
for a candidate to such a situation. I nevertheless hope in 
the course of a short time to be enabled to give you proofs 
of my ability in a science to which I have sacrificed a very 
considerable part of my life-time. On this account I beg leave 
to recommend myself to your notice in the election. of a professor 
of mineralogy‘. 
,Althoug I am unable at this Ише to deliver a course of 
lectures in English, I shall occupy myselv with the utmost as- 
siduity to acquire the language, and hope to surmount the dif- 
ficulty in a very short time‘. 
Das Gesuch war von zwei Empfehlungsschreiben begleitet, 
das eine von Tuomas ALLax, vom 17. Oktober 1813 datiert, das 
andere von Гезме Fostrr, datiert Lurgan (Irland) den 20. Ok- 
tober 1813. 
In diesem letzteren heisst es: „I have lately had oppor- 
tunities of knowing him personally in Edinburgh and of seeing 
the very high estimation in which he is held by the scientific 
- people there, he is considered as not inferior to any minera- 
logist in Europe, and certainly not Jameson. I can also certify 
(which is important for our purpose) that his manners are 
peculiarly prepossessing and gentleman-like ...... He is now 
about to give to the world a very full account of these unknown 
