70 MEMOIR OF PALLAS, 



science. Besides, he had never borrowed from others 

 without rendering them explicit justice. 



Thus restored to the country of his nativity, and 

 to a circle of admiring friends, and more especially 

 enjoying the society of a brother in whom long 

 separation had only caused the natural affection 

 more ardently to glow, and watched over by an only 

 daughter who loved him with the utmost tenderness, 

 Pallas looked forward to years of happiness. He 

 read with the deepest interest all new works on 

 natural history, and projected a visit to the towns 

 of France and Italy which were richest in museums ; 

 and anticipated no small happiness in making the 

 acquaintance of the eminent men he would neces- 

 sarily have met with ; whilst he would collect new 

 materials which would enable him to put the last, 

 finish to his own labours. The germs, however, of 

 those maladies which he had contracted during his 

 travels and his sojourn in the Crimea, developed 

 themselves with a severity and rapidity he had 

 little expected. They seemed soon to be beyond 

 the reach of medicine ; and, as he had ever been em- 

 ployed, his closing days were spent in making 

 arrangements for the continuation of those works 

 which he left incomplete, in a way which promised 

 the greatest utility and advantage. 



He died on the 8th of September, 1811, having 

 almost attained the limit of seventy years. 



He was twice married, and left behind him a 

 daughter, to whom we have just alluded. She 

 became the \vife, and afterwards the widow^ of 



