238 Prof. H. K. Marx's Memoir of the Life and 



introduced by hhn Cheselden's Anatomy,* Neergard's Compa- 

 rative anatomy and physiology of the digestive organs,t and 

 Gilbert Blane'sj Elements of medical logic. 



I must now allude to one kind of knowledge in which Blu- 

 menbach had hardly his equal, that is, his acquaintance witb 

 voyages and travels. He had read all the works of that de- 

 scription in the Gottingen library, made extracts from them, 

 and prepared a triple list, namely, a geographical, a chronolo- 

 gical, and an alphabetical. He was indebted to this occupa- 

 tion, as he often was in the habit of saying, for no small por- 

 tion of his information : he was thus furnished with an ever 

 productive mine for his natural historical and ethnographical 

 labours. 



He himself had made comparatively few long journeys ; || for 

 he had only been through a part of Switzerland§ and Holland, 

 to England, or rather to London,U which he termed the sixth 

 quarter of the globe, and to Paris, whither he went, at the 

 Westphalian period, on a diplomatic mission, to bespeak the 

 favourable consideration of Napoleon for the university, on 

 which occasion De la Cepede was his intercessor and conduc- 

 tor. During his journeys he kept journals, in which he in- 

 serted briefly whatever was worth knowing. Of these very 

 varied notices but little is as yet known.** 



He executed a translation of the medical observations tt in 

 the second part of Ives's Travels ; he wrote a preface to the 



* German edition, by A. F. Wolf. Gottingen, 1789. 



t Berlin, 1806. In the preface, Dlumcnbaeh speaks of the influence of 

 comparative anatomy on the philosophical study of natural history generally, 

 and more particularly on the physiology of the human body, and on the ve- 

 terinary art. 



J Gottingen, 1819. 



|| When he required a jaunt for his health, he was glad to visit the Dow- 

 ager Princess Christina von Waldeck at Arolscn, where he was always most 

 graciously received; or he made a trip to Pyrniont; or to Gotha, Eehburg, 

 Weimar, and Dresden. 



§ In 1783. % In the years 1791-1793. 



** Remarks on some tours in Waldeck, collected in Sehliizer's Corres- 

 pondence, part iii., 1778, p. 229-237. Also, some natural historical remarks 

 made during a journey to Switzerland, in the Magazin fur das Neueste, &c. 

 vol. iv. No. 3, 1787, p. 1 ; and vol. v. No. 1, 1788, p. 13. 



tt The other part of this voyage to India was translated by Dohm. Leip- 

 sic, 1775- 



