PREFACE. Z\\Z 



In presenting this Catalogue to the Public, it has been deemed 

 necessary to explain briefly the circumstances connected with its 

 publication, and the causes of the delay that has occurred in its 

 appearance, as well as to furnish a short sketch of the Life of the 

 Compiler. 



Mr. J. O. Voigt, the son of Dr. John Henry Voigt, was born 

 March 22nd 1798, at Nordborg in Sleswick, a few miles distant 

 from that portion of Jutland in Denmark, whence the Angles of 

 ancient days passed over to England — still known as the province 

 of Angeln. He received his early education in one of the Royal 

 public schools, where he was as much distinguished for the bold 

 and enterprizing spirit with which he entered into every scheme 

 of fun and frolic, as for the energy and perseverance with which he 

 applied to the more sober pursuits of his class. 



At the age of sixteen, he passed with much credit from the 

 school to the Royal University of Copenhagen, where he became 

 an inmate in the family of his uncle. Dr. Giesseman, Professor of 

 Anatomy there, and Physician to the Queen ; and although he 

 had been educated with a view to his entering the Church, cir- 

 cumstances soon determined him to make Physic his study. To- 

 wards the close of his collegiate course, whilst steadily pursuing 

 his studies, and surrounded by every comfort that affluence could 

 secure, he was suddenly reduced to considerable straits by the 

 f^ death of his uncle and his father, within a very short period of each 

 ^ other. His mother and an only sister were left in circumstances, 

 ^ not indeed of affluence, but of perfect comfort — yet such was his 

 LO sense of honor, that he determined at once to withdraw his claim 

 '- on their resources, and to create at all risks the means of his own 

 C/; support ; at the same time he carefully concealed from his bereaved 



