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ACCOUNT OF LINNAEUS, 
THE CELEBRATED MINERALOGIST 
E. C. SCHULTZ, AT HAMBURGH. 
TAT occasioned my first llterarry correspondence and acquaint- 
ance with Linn^us, was a prince and a book. I published in i 7 6 9 
a description of several curiosities of nature, art and antiquity, which 
had deservedly attracted the notice and attention of the curious in 
Mover’s cabinet of natural history at Hamburgh*. This cabinet 
of 
e ahove work appeared at Hamburgh in two volumes, oCtavo. The reader will not 
be displeased with the following brief account respecting the author himself. -Mr. Ernest 
•' " U - e^ HER ScHULTZ wasborn in 'Ho, at Koenigsbrrg in Prussia. Hewasat the univer- 
, sity with Baron Jacobi, the present Prussian minister at thecourt of London. His parents 
wanted h,m to study divinity, but like L.nn^us, he preferred natural history. In ,L year 
l et H C T T Ca r net ° f natUral t,eaSllreS ’ eSlieCia "y a fine ColIc « io " of ambers, and 
confl , ar> ' naU,ral hiSt0ry ’ Were destr °V ed « Koenigsberg, by the dreadful 
conflagration which ravaged that city. He was so aff-fted ,1 ■ i , 
travel Hr „ , so alr -«ed at this loss, that he resolved to 
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