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deal with the hfe of Steller. Reichard, who was a pupil of Steller's at 

 the University of Halle, corrects errors in Augustin StoUer's account 

 (see above) but is himself inaccurate as to the circumstances under 

 which Steller died.] 



S[cherer], J. B. Leben Herrn Georg Wilhelm Stellers, gewesenen Mit- 

 gliedes und Adjuncti der Russisch-Kayserlichen Academic der Wissen- 

 schaften. In G. W. Steller: Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka, 

 dessen Einwohnern, deren Sitten, Nahmen, Lebensart und verschie- 

 denen Gewohnheiten, herausgegeben von J. B. S[cherer], Frankfort 

 and Leipzig, 1774, pre-pp. 1-24. [This is an uncritical and discursive 

 account, unreliable in many details. Beckmann states {Physikalisch- 

 okonomische Bibliothek, Vol. 6, 1775, p. 192) that the author was 

 Scherer, who had lived several years prior to 1774 in St. Petersburg 

 and been in touch with Professor J. E. Fischer (see above p. 247, 

 footnote 16) and others who knew Steller. It was mainly to rectify the 

 errors in this account that Pallas wrote the letter listed in the after- 

 next entry.] 



Beckmann, Johann. [Review of Steller's " Beschreibung von dem Lande 

 Kamtschatka." Frankfort and Leipzig, I774-] Physikalisch- 

 okonomische Bibliothek, Worinn von den Neuesten Bilchern, Welche die 

 Naturgeschichte, Nalurlehre,und die Land- und Stadtwirthschaft Betreffen, 

 Zuverldssige und Vollsldndige Nachrichten Ertheilet Werden, von Johann 

 Beckmann, Gottingen, Vol. 6, 1775, pp. 191-202. [On pp. 193-196 are 

 given certain details about Steller's life and the manner of his death, 

 to correct misstatements in Scherer's life of Steller (see above) .] 



[Pallas, P. S.] Zuverlassige Nachrichten von den letzten Schicksalen 

 desHerrn Georg Wilhelm Steller. Physikalisch-okonomische Bibliothek 

 . . . von Johann Beckmann, Gottingen, Vol. 8, 1777. PP- 453-464. 

 [Additional details on Steller's life and last days called forth by the re- 

 view of Steller's "Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka" (see 

 above) and sent to Beckmann by Pallas in a letter dated July 27, 1777. 

 The letter contains a transcript of Steller's testament (pp. 461-463), 

 which he gave Professor J. E. Fischer near Solikamsk when he was 

 ordered to return to Irkutsk and report for trial (see, above, p. 4) . This 

 is the note to which Pallas refers in his preface to Steller's description of 

 Bering Island (see, above, p. 189, footnote i).] 



[Scattered references to Steller in:] " Allegemeine Historie der Reisen zu 

 Wasser und Lande, "Leipzig, Vol. 19, about 1772, p. 79; A.F.BUsching's 

 Wochentliche Nachrichten, 1774, No. 21, pp. 163-167, and No. 24, pp. 

 185-187; Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, Berlin and Stettin, Vol. 25, 



177s. PP- 537-543- 

 Pekarskii, Petr. [Biography of] Georg Wilhelm Steller, naturalist. 

 In his "Istoriya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v Peterburgye," 

 Vol. I, Division of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial 



