34 MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 



to allow him to go and settle in Holland. Thither 

 accordingly he went, and took up his abode at the 

 Hague. His reputation at this time was so well 

 established, that he was the same year, 1764, at the 

 age of 23, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of 

 London, and in the following year, Member of the 

 Academie des Curieux de la Nature^ to both of which 

 Societies he had previously sent interesting and 

 ingenious papers. 



The intimacy which Pallas now contracted with 

 the celebrated naturalists in Holland, and particu- 

 larly with those of the Hague, who had commenced 

 the formation of a literary society, — the free access 

 he had to the great museum of the Prince of Orange, 

 and other valuable cabinets, — the systematic cata- 

 logues of these collections which he drew up, and 

 several of which he published, — contributed much to 

 advance his knowledge of the productions of nature 

 in the various quarters of the globe, and to the 

 collection of those materials which gave birth to the 

 many works on zoology which have deservedly 

 distinguished their author as the first naturalist of 

 hid time. One of the earliest treatises which ren- 

 dered him conspicuous was his Elinchus Zoophi^to- 

 rum^ or " Tabular Yiew of Zoophytes.** 



This could not be considered but as an extraor- 

 dinary production for the time, proceeding from the 

 pen of any one, and was still more remarkable as 

 coming from so young a man. Haller characterizes 

 it as Princeps in hoc classe opus^ quoB limites utritcs^ 

 que regni confundit^ and adds, totam classem per 



