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ACCOUNT OF LiNNiEUS, 



BT THE CELEBRATED MINERALOGIST 



E. C. SCHULTZ, AT HAMBURGH. 



What occasioned my first literarry correspondence and acquaint- 

 ance with LinNjEus, was a prince and a booL I published in 1769 

 a description of several curiosities of nature, art and antiquity, which 

 had deservedly attrafted the notice and attention of the curious in 

 Mover's cabinet of natural history at Hamburgh*. This cabinet 



of 



* The above work appeared at Hamburgh in two volumes, oftavo. The reader will not 

 be displeased with the following brief account respefting the author himself. — Mr. Ernest 

 Christopher Schultz was born in 1740, at Koenigsberg mPrussia. Hewasat the univer- 

 sity with Baron J AC OBI, the present Prussian minister at the court of London. His parents 

 wanted him to study divinity, but like Linnaeus, he preferred natural iiistory. In the year 

 J764 his considerable cabinet of natural treasures, especially a fine coUeilion of ambers, and 

 a considerable library of natural history, were destroyed at Koenigsberg, by the dreadful- 

 conflagration which ravaged that city. He was so affcfted at this loss, that he resolved to 

 travel. He afterwards fixed upon Hamburgh as the most eligible spot for his general resi- 

 dence, and began to coUeil: another cabinet, and to enrich it, travelled through the principal 



2 countries 



