128 Ehrenberg’s Discoveries—Notices of Eminent Men. 
In his own country his influence was highly salutary: he di- 
rected his attention especially to the improvement of the national 
education ; and we cannot be surprised at finding such a person 
very soon at the head of nearly all the institutions for literary and 
public purposes. He founded the National Museum of Bohemia, 
of which he was the President ; gave to it his library and his va- 
rious collections, and further enriched it at various periods of his 
life. He was, indeed, zealous in all that concerned Bohemian - 
nationality, and was an accomplished master of the language and 
literature of his country : since his death I am assured that there 
is hardly one Bohemian of any class who does not mourn for him 
as for a most respected benefactor. "Throughout Germany, he 
was looked to by all who felt an interest in science with a respect 
and regard which he well merited. The emperor Francis held 
him in the highest esteem; he gave him the title of Privy Cout- 
cillor, and the Grand Cross of St. Leopold, held in that monarchy 
as a distinguished honor. 
In the preceding sketch I have mentioned Schlotheim as one of 
the predecessors of Count Sternberg in fossil botany. Although 
this writer died in 1832, and was an honorary member of this So 
ciety, he has never been noticed in the annual address; I may 
therefore here add. a few words with reference to him. Baron 
F. von Schlotheim was Privy Councillor and President of the 
Chamber at the court of Gotha, and his collection of Petrifactions 
has long been celebrated throughout Germany. Besides his Flora 
of a Former World, or Descriptions of remarkable Impressions of 
Plants, which appeared in 1804, he published, in 1820, ‘ Petrifac- 
tenkunde, or the Science of Petrifactions according to its preset 
condition, illustrated by the Description of a Collection of petrified 
and fossil remains of the animal and vegetable kingdom of a for- 
mer world.’ And in 1822 and 1823 he published Appendixes to 
this work. His collection was also further made known by att 
cles in Leonhard’s Mineralogical Pocket Book and in the Isis. 
After his death a new description of this collection was announ- 
ced, but whether it appeared I am not able to say. Schlotheim’s 
introduction to his account of his collection contains some extel 
sive geological views. 
It is only justice to M. de Schlotheim to add here what is said 
of him by M. Adolphe Brongniart, whose own labors on fossil ve- 
getables have been of such inestimable value to the geologist, and 
