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" in the forenoon we were daily engaged in the British 

 Museum ; we dined together, and passed our evenings in 

 a cheerful circle of acquaintance. To him I am indebted 

 as well for the benefit as the pleasure I enjoyed during 

 my stay in England." The libraries and collections of 

 all the English naturalists were thrown open to Fabricius, 

 who determined and described the insects, and arranged 

 the species of the collections. At the end of 1768, 

 " although unwillingly, I at last left London and went 

 to Paris ; but I had become too much of an Englishman 

 to be able to relish France, much less Paris. I was, 



however, received with*great kindness by Geoifroy 



still I was inconsiderate enough to despise everything 

 because it was not English. My foolish discontent in- 

 creased daily ; and as I from iny childhood had been 

 accustomed to indulge my fancies, I left Paris as early as 

 December, and travelled by Lyons, Nismes, Montpellier, 

 Marseilles, Antibes, to Italy, and then proceeded by 

 Nice, Cone, Turin, Milan, Verona, arid Padua, to 

 Venice .... In Nismes I met with Seguier, and, more 

 particularly at Turin, the celebrated naturalist, Allioni ; 

 .... from Venice I made a short trip to Bologna, to 

 examine the Aldrovandine collection. . . . Very early in 

 the spring I went to Idria, partly to see the quicksilver- 

 mines which are there, and partly to get acquainted with 

 Scopoli, who at that time was one of the first ento- 

 mologists living. From Idria I crossed the Tyrolean 

 Mountains, visited Innspruck, Halle, Swatz, and passed 

 through Munich, Regensburg, and Stuttgard, to Tu- 

 bingen. . . . From Tubingen I travelled through part of 

 Switzerland to Strasburg .... after remaining some weeks 

 there, I travelled to Hamburg, and returned at last to 

 Copenhagen." During his absence Fabricius had been 

 appointed " Professor of Economy of the Natural-History 

 Theatre of Charlottenburg," and in the winter after his 

 return began to give lectures on Political Economy; but 

 in 1771 the Nat.-Hist. Theatre was abolished. "From 

 1772-75 I spent the winters in Copenhagen, and the 

 summers in London. My friends Mr. (afterwards Sir 

 Joseph) Banks and Dr. Solander had returned from 

 their voyage round the world, and had brought with them 

 innumerable specimens of natural history and insects. 

 [The Banksian Collection is in the possession of the 

 Linnsean Society of London, arranged according to the 

 latest works of Fabricius.] I now lived very plea- 

 santly. With Banks, Hunter, and Drury I found plenty 



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