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the only person fitted to be his successor in the department of Compar- 
air Anatomy. us 28 years from the period when his resolve was 
ma ad sufficed to place a" through his own efforts alone, in this 
supreme position in “gael 
Say of Sir C. Logi, Qeartcdour, Geol. Assoc., No. 22, 1850. ) “Christian 
VII, King of Denmark was enrolled a Fellow of this Society in 18: 
Two years before that time, when travelling in Italy, he had witnessed 
an eruption of Vesuvius, and ha read a elim of it to the Acad- 
ciences at Naples; a communication published in their 
Transactions, and afterwards thei in Leonhard’s Journal for 1822, er 
From an early age he had taken a lively interest in the progress of | 
- hatural history, and when Crown Prince, formed at Copenhagen, at-his % 
_ Own expense, a magnificent collection of shells, the number of species ° : 
being estimated at not less than 12,000, exclusive of fossils, When I r 
visited the Danish capital in 1835, he placed this museum and his — 
library at my disposal, and I had then an opportunity of yeaa, a 
i rom 
all zoologists or was he inattentive to the points of controversy then 
agitated respecting the geology of Denmar e questioned me 
closely as io my opinion, whether the strata of Faxoe, containing cer- 
tain species of Cyprea, Oliva, Mitra, and other. genera  puall: 
garded as characteristic of the tertiary period, really belonged to that 
€poch, or to the cretaceous rocks. That the latter concl,Sion was cor- . 
rect I had satisfied myself, after exploring the cliffs of Moén and See- 
land, as I have explained in your Transactions; and bee roe 
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a a 
hen Christian VII. sae to the throne, the « cares end re ties gf 
of an abs olute monarch did not make him forge ful of his former love... 
for natural history. He was ak aa ible to: se wages foreigners . Bae 
: : Mications: ich may oo 
Mention the ‘ Gaea Danica’ of islet Steenstrup Sad Porehharpeacr- > > is 
He also gave his patronage to a rp id botanical work onite palms” ¢ 7 8. 
of Mexico, by Professo. r Liebma: in nd promoted liberally the geolog- — 
. = i expedition of Baron von Ww. ersh n and Professor Bunsen to lee Ky 
aie he 
the » he alwitee * 
ived as king, taking his oes pag as a member, - 
= President u Alter a reign of nine igs he died in. 
