A dent which his Big was now 
HEDWIG. 
are rather she nerformarices of a profeffor, who felt himfelf 
oblized to do emesis, but would have found it difficult 
to go much further, nor did even Hedwig under him imbibe 
any thing of the true philofophical principles of arrange 
ment, the talents for which are granted to very res and are 
nvidious 
fearcely ever of German growth. e mean no 
refletiotis on any nation or people ach has appro- 
“priate merits, a and all are ufeful vopethe in aleaces like 
‘different chara¢ters on the theatre of human life. 
In. 175 Hedwig was taken into the houfe of pro-. 
monftration of plants in 
his botanical leGtures, as well a ethe care of’ patients at 
the Infirmary ; and it is Aca ist this engagement was 
“full as advantageous to the mafter as to. the pupil. 
‘methods for the augmentation of is feanty income, and: his 
fobriety and economy. enabled niet to live eee 4 ntly on what 
‘he could procure, and to purfue’ every m ot improve- 
ent within his reach. Having finifhed his fudies, he was 
p fician in his ative place, but 
Fed d 
now fo ae matte 
‘able to alleviate the labours of his 5 prein by almott day 
attention to his favourite iludies o longer un 
guidance of profeffors, he was now left to improve bite, 
m the very belt of all fchoals that of Nature. His morning 4 
ve 
hours in fummer, from five till bre akfaft-time, were fpent 
an the fields and wand: and his evenings in the inveftigation ~ 
of what he had colleéted, or elfe in the care of alittle garden | 
of his own. The acquifition of an excellent compound W 
microfeope, from his friend Koehler of ‘Drefden n, proved of 
the utmoft importance in ae and wan’ the peculiar 
taking, for ¥ the ftudy of the 
Hence 
been enabled to publifh fome of the moft curious and authen- “ 
tic botanical figures, 
The firft and erentaft fruit of avi’ labours, was the 
determination of the m d female flowers of moffes, the 
parts of ae had been made out Bi ‘Micheli, 3 ro nf a 
and even the true office of each eft 
ed ‘on every 
tacked, and Hed wig 
nie ag %) he Taina powes itians 
oe on the 17th of January a ‘He was: alread y 
pated aa enius again ft his 
4 taken for Pansies, ba in fade 
tion, ha 
the aN! of ae be and ‘produced real feeds Avhittory Spe 
Like ° 
Haffelquiit, he was obliged to turn his abilities te various * 
his mentioned was there 
fome Latin quarto, in two parts, wi 
{copical plates. ‘The earlieft account given of Hedwig’s 
opinions in Engla nd,’ was from’ the communications of the 
late profeffor J. Sibthorp, who had jult then vilited him; 
e writer of the prefent article, in 1786, and it is an, 
nex od to a tranflation of Linneus’s Difertation on the ox 
of Plants, publifhed that year. 
Hedwig loft his ns: wife in 1776. She had brought ‘ie 
Hay ne fs 
nine sea fix of whom furvived their m — 
ocs 
cupied f fora flender remuneration, foarcely fafficient to uy 
tain and educate his family. e confiderations induced 
her to urge his removal to Leipfic, which took place at 
Eafter 1781, and the following year the work above- 
ublifhed, on which his fame as an 
original phyfiologift and botanift moft fecurely refs. The 
fame {ubje¢t is happily followed up in his Theoria gencrationis 
et Sut se seoewet penser Seg. seers a Asem 
at urg in 1784. ork gained its author the 
och ihc ee in eco 3, of 100 gold ducats, which 
mine had in 9 obtained for his Differtation on the 
Sexes of Plants hidesatnion ed. In-it th 
d Aponte ation of Moffes is further illuftrated, and a view 
is alfo taken of the fructification of 
which may alfo perhaps be faid of his account ‘of the Fungt, 
the obfcure, ‘though not properly cryptogamic — Chara, 
ichen. His entirely novel explanation of the impreg- 
—- of Equifstum, fee that article, though wonderful, ova 
t been controverted; but of the flowers of the er 
pei neither he, nor any one elfe, a in our wien at 
leaft, deteéted the fecret; fee Firices. A new and en- 
creafed edition a this work appeared in 1798. Ba iirg 
erary fameof. mar aa _ medical practice, 
were eo Vevey day encreafing. made phytician to 
— profeffor of F phy fic ‘tea of botany at 
sad: — ty which he poner 
785, was accompan 
with a houfe, and the fojetenintaies of the public salen, 
In 1791 the fenate pieban him Asis fician to the {fchool of 
St. Thomas. ‘The duties of all thefe various {tations might 
fuppofed: to alte fully staid his time, yet he itil! 
caisees s. from his 
found" “Teifure to ‘attend to new commu 
t him from Penn- 
cript mofles were 
Ne fylvania by the Rev. Dr. oe and many Weit 
~ Yet the fexual | 
Indian ones by Dr. Swartz. A fine n of new or 
rare ferns, in full fructification, was re arded to him by 
fir Joleph Gaia at the fuggeition of the writer of this, in 
hopes that he might ~ induced to take up their exammation 5 
it not being then known, in this country, that he was already 
- intent on the fubject, ad preening his effay for the ig 
munications w, 
burgh es its of thefe com 
fot to the pone in his life-time. But the former ee 
éontributed, with r matter, to a Pa oe wérk, 
go by his able pupil Dr. Sch entitled 
Mufcorum, in 4to, with 77 cc plates 5 and the 
4X2 ain latter: 
