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gelbeck, with a boat and divers : and the capital 

 collections made by his agents, whom he afterwards 

 fent there with the necefTary inftruclions and appara- 

 tus, may be feen in Chemnitz's elegant cabinet of 

 fheils in 4to (with illuminated plates), and how many 

 new fpecies of Zoophytes he diicovered, we learn from 

 another German work by Esper at Erlangen the third 

 volume of which is nearly finimed. 



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