THE TOMB OF RtWPHIUS. 



how nearly tbia sacred spot caine to be entirely neg- 

 lected and forgotten forever, reads as Ibllows t 



KBUORi^ aAOBUu OBOBon BvEiiABDi Buurnn, 

 de re botanica et hisboricu naturali op time meritft 

 tumulum 



dira temporis calamitate et sacrilegia mantifere 



Mouibua |jlacati3 restitui jassit 

 et 



pietatem rGverentiom^ue publicara testificans 



li-SE COSfiKOKAVlT 



GtKkrus Alexander Grardua Phillipua 

 liber Baro A. Gapellen 

 Totius In dial Belgioaaqae 



Anno Domini M,Doco.xmv. 



GrBORGE EvEEAED KtDiPF, wtose name lias been 

 latinized into Kiimpliius, as an acknowledgment of 

 the great service lie has rendered to tlie scientific 

 worldj was a German, a native of a small town in 

 Hesse-CasseL He was bom about the year 1626, 

 and, having studied medicine, at the age of twenty- 

 eight went to Batavia, entered the mercantile ser- 

 vice of the Dutch East India Company, and thence 

 jiroceeded to Amboina, where he passed the re- 

 mainder of his life. At the age of forty-two, while 

 contemplating a voyage back to his native land, he 

 suddenly became blind, and therefore never left his 

 adopted island home ; yet he continued to prosecute 

 his favorite studies in natural history till his death, 

 which occurred in 1693, when he had attained the 

 ripe age of sixty-seven. 



His gi-eat work on the shells of Amboina, which 



