XVI LIST OF AUTHORS 



of Zoophytes, which was continued by Goldfuss and 

 Lamouroux. Esper died at Erlangeii in 1810, and his 

 collection, which was particularly rich in Lepidoptera and 

 Zoophytes, is now in the Museum of that University. 



EVERSMANN, E., Professor at Casan, has written several 

 papers which have appeared in the Bulletins de la Soc. 

 Imp. des Naturalistes de Moscou, and is author of 

 " Fauna Lepidopterologica Volgo-Uralensis, exhibens 

 Lep. species, quas per 25 annos in provinciis, Volgam 

 fl. inter et montes Uralenses sitis, observavit et de- 

 scripsit " (Casan, 1844), a work of great rarity, a con- 

 siderable portion of the impression having been destroyed 

 by fire. 



FABRICIUS, Johann Christian, born in 1745 at Tondern, in 

 Schleswig : in 1761 his father was appointed physician 

 to one of the Copenhagen hospitals, and young Fabri- 

 cius consequently became a student of the Univer- 

 sity in the Danish capital, but was afterwards sent, in 

 company with Zoega, to Upsala. " I always look back to 

 that period with great delight and warm feelings of 

 gratitude towards my great master, Linnaeus, who was 

 to us like a father .... Linnaeus in his lectures under- 

 stood the art of encouraging youth in the study of 

 science, and in his intercourse and conversation he was 

 inexhaustible in all kinds of anecdotes and observations. 

 He visited us daily both in the country and in town, and 

 enriched our minds during several hours of delightful in- 

 struction, which was to him a recreation, while speaking 

 to us on his favourite science, botany. He properly laid 

 the foundation of our knowledge, and imprinted on our 

 minds the systematic order with which the study of the 

 sciences ought to be pursued, and that accuracy of ex- 

 pression which so peculiarly distinguishes the Linnsean 

 school; Zoega devoted himself to the study of the 

 various kinds of mosses, / to that of insects, and Linnaeus 

 always rejoiced when we brought him anything new, 

 or when he could communicate to us some new informa- 

 tion on those subjects. Revered and cherished will his 

 memory ever be by me*." In 1765, Fabricius went 

 to Leipsic to hear the lectures of Prof. Schreber on 

 Economics; in 1766 to Leyden; and in the following 

 year travelled through Scotland and England : in London 

 he formed an intimate acquaintance with Dr. Solander : 



* The Autobiography of Fabricius, translated from the Danish, by the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope; published in Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond. vol. iv. (1845). 



