HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. 455 
at the expence of the Empress. It is to be wished 
that the author may continue this elegant work {. 
Johann Gerard Koenig from Curland, was an 
apothecary, and afterwards studied under Linné. 
He went afterwards to Copenhagen, from whence 
he visited Iceland in 1765. After his return he ac- 
companied the mission, as physician to’ Tranquebar, 
in the East Indies in 1768. During this voyage. he 
collected at the Cape of Good Hope many unknown 
plants, and sent them to his instructor Linné. His 
zeal for botany had no bounds, but his pecuniary 
circumstances were not in his favour. He entered 
as natural historian the service of the Nabob of 
Arcot, from whom he got a better salary, which he 
spent entirely in his various investigations. But still, 
though in better circumstances, finding that his in- 
come would not suffice for the execution of his ex- 
tensive plans, he petitioned the Directory of Madras 
for an additional salary, which was granted. He 
died June 26, 1785, without having all his discove- 
ries published. Single treatises of his are mserted 
in different periodical publications, and in the third 
number of Retzii Observationes Botanice, we have 
his masterly descriptions of all the Monandrize of the 
East Indies; and in the sixth number an enumera- 
tion and description of all the Indian species of Epi- 
dendron. 
_ ~ P.S. Pallasii Flora Rossica. Tom. I. Pars. 1. 2. Petro. 
fol. 1784. 1788. fol. with too coloured plates. The text has 
_heen separately printed in 8vo. 
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