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 wife, and afterwards the widow, of 
