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having been destined for sale, and my description having been sent to 
several amateurs in foreign countries, it so happened that it fell into 
the hands of the Queen of Sweden, the sister of Frederick the 
Great whose love of natural history was so conspicuous. Another 
copy of my work being at the same time transmitted to the celebrated 
Count Scheffer, governor to the late King, he could not help 
communicating it likewise to his favourite Linn-*us 
Gustavus the Great, then Prince Royal, went two years after 
to France, accompanied by his governor. The latter introduced me to 
this Prince during his stay at Flamburgh , which lasted from the 23d to 
the 30th of December of the same year. Several precious stones, 
very scarce, and partly unknown, amongst others the Asterias, whose 
wonderful appearance I had first discovered shortly before in 177 °» 
and which I illustrated afterwards, besides many other valuable pro- 
duftions of nature, which I had the honour on that occasion to show 
countries of Europe. He made several valuable discoveries, especially that of the rainbow- 
coloured agate and the Asterias of Pliny, which the curious had considered as a nonentity. 
He composed a treatise upon the Asterias, which was read with universal applause at the 
meeting of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh ; and Frederick the Great of 
Prussia was so pleased with it, that he sent Mr. Schultz a most flattering note in his own 
hand writing, in which, he thanked him for his discovery. The present King of Prussia pre- 
sented him also with two gold medals, which he received from the hands of Count Von 
Herzberg. He first gave the best description of the gem called the oculus mundi. 
It was doubtful whether that gem was the work of nature or of art ; but Mr. Schultz 
proved it to be a natural production, by a treatise which was read in the Royal Academy uf 
Sciences at Paris in 1776. Prince Frederick of Brunswick also complimented hint in a 
letter on the revival of the Asterias of Pliny. While he was at Paris he. bought of an ig- 
norant person a crystal of Madagascar, for the sum of three Louis d’ors, which represented 
in its internal structure the periedt form of a net. The great mineralogist, Delisle, soon 
after offered him 4000 hvres for it, on the part of the late Queen of France.— As a naturalist, 
his knowledge was of the first rate, and his merits are acknowledged by the first literati of the 
age. 
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