TOBACCO LEAVES 



NOTE. Graevius was one of the most 

 distinguished scholars of the seventeenth 

 century. He was born at Nainburg, in 

 Saxony, on January 29, 1632. 



In 1661 he was appointed professor at 

 Utrecht, where he died on the llth of 

 January, 1703. His character was esti- 

 mable as his erudition was astonishing. 

 Two kings, who were rivals and enemies, 

 Louis XV. and William III., joined 

 in doing him honour, and three universi- 

 ties, Leyden, Heidelberg, and Padua, made 

 him, but in vain, the most flattering offers 

 and invitations. By his wife, Edile de 

 Camp, he had eighteen children, four only 

 of whom survived him. His library, con- 

 sisting of five thousand printed and a 

 hundred manuscript volumes, is now incor- 

 porated with the library of Heidelberg 

 University. Long ago there was a trans- 

 lation into German of his famous Sonnet 



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