MEMOIR OF SWAMMERDAM. 
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and proceedings of this enthusiast, were devising 
measures to have her expelled from the province, and 
on becoming aware of their intention, she wished to 
take shelter in the king of Denmark's dominions. 
Swammerdam, and another disciple, were appointea 
to visit the Danish court, to ask permission to make 
this change of residence — a commission which he 
readily undertook. He accordingly set out for Copen- 
hagen, on the 25th March 1676 ; hut was wholly 
unsuccessful in his object. He returned to Sleswick 
to give a report of his reception, and after a short 
residence there, went hack to Amsterdam. 
His prospects in that city had not improved in his 
absence ; his father, whose resentment had been 
somewhat mitigated of late, was irrecoverably alien- 
ated from him by his recent imprudence. His sister 
Joanna, too, who had resided with his father since 
his wife's death, and often interceded with him on 
her brother's behalf, had just been married ; and his 
father having resolved to live henceforth with his 
son-in-law, Swammerdam found himself at last de- 
prived of a home. In this exigency, two hundred 
florins a-year allowed him by his father, was all that 
he had to depend upon, and this being inadequate to 
defray his necessary expenses, he was obliged to 
think of some plan for relieving his necessities. A 
gentleman of rank, John Ort of Nieuwenrode, 
Breukele, &c., wiio had been long on terms of intimate 
friendship ■with Swammerdam, had often entertained 
him at his country-seat, and even proposed that he 
should take up his residence there altogether, that 
