24 MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 
to allow him to go and settle in Holland. ,Thither 
accordingly he went, and took up his abode at the 
Tague. 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 
Iiondon, and in the following year, Member of the 
Academie des Curieux de la Nature, to both of which 
Societies he had previously sent inbeseana 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 
m 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 
his time. One of the earliest treatises which ren- 
dered him conspicuous was his Hlinchus Zoophyto- 
rum, or “ Tabular View 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 hae classe opus, que limites utrius- 
gue regni confundit, and adds, totam classem per 
