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hemian Museum at Prague was provided with the means of receiving 
and displaying this collection, the whole should be transferred from 
Brzezina to the capital. This was afterwards done; and in this and 
other ways he was one of the principal founders of the Museum at 
Prague. He also gave notice, that while the collection continued in 
his own residence, it was open to the inspection of every lover of 
science, even in the absence of the Count himself. 
The publication of Sternberg’s Flora der Vorwelé went on till 
1825, after which it was discontinued till 1838, when two parts ap- 
peared, terminating the work. In this last publication he states that 
he is compelled to give up this undertaking, having been in a great 
measure deprived of sight for two years, so that he was obliged to 
devolve the greater part of such labours upon MM. Corda and Presl. 
His hearing also failed him. He adds, however, that though thus 
no longer able to pursue the path which he has trodden for twenty 
years, he shall not fail to render to the science, of which he was one 
of the founders, any service which may be in his power. This pub- 
lication was the crowning labour of his life, for he did not long sur- 
vive it; he retained, however, to the last the elasticity and activity 
of his mind. He died very suddenly at his country seat already 
mentioned, on the 20th of December, 1838, being carried off by 
apoplexy in his 78th year. 
In his own country his influence was highly salutary : he directed 
his attention especially to the improvement of the national educa- 
tion ; and we cannot be surprised at finding such a person very soon 
at the head of nearly all the institutions for literary and public pur- 
poses. He founded the National Museum of Bohemia, of which he 
was the President; gave to it his library and his various collections, 
and further enriched it at various periods of his life. He was, in- 
deed, zealous in all that concerned Bohemian nationality, and was 
an accomplished master of the language and literature of his country : 
since his death I am assured that there is hardly one Bohemian of 
any class who does not mourn for him as for a most respected bene- 
factor. Throughout Germany, he was looked to by all who felt an 
interest in science with a respect and regard which he well merited. 
The emperor Francis held him in the highest esteem; he gave him 
the title of Privy Councillor, and the Grand Cross of St. Leopold, 
held in that monarchy as a distinguished honour. 
In the preceding sketch I have mentioned Schlotheim as one of 
