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riching ourselves with his experience, gained by travels in the 
Fichtelberg and the Alps of Switzerland and Saltzburg; examining 
his collections of subjects of natural history, and making especial 
use of that part of his library which relates to the southern borders 
of Germany. Thus we have become familiar with the writings of 
Scopoli, Wulf and Host, and with the Travels of Seenns and 
Schwaegrichen. But the works of the greatest value to us 
were the Flora Germanica of Schrader, which, as is well known, 
and, fortunately for us, includes the plants of Istria, and Sturm’s 
German Fauna , which contains the Coleopterous insects of 
Carniola, and of the southern shores of Germany. These valu- 
able aids were not only closely studied by us, but, along with 
Host’s Flora Austriaca, Rolling’s Deutschland's Flora , (third 
part), Willdenow’s Carices and Schultes’ Travels to the Giock- 
ner, were consigned to our portmanteaus.” 
44 Thus did we pass many successive evenings in laying our 
schemes for our proposed tour, and in agreeable and useful 
conversation, which frequently became quite enthusiastic. One 
of us would suddenly take from Funck’s collection a fine spe- 
cimen of the rare Carabus Gigas , to shew what we had to ex- 
pect; whilst another sought out the figure of it in Panzer’s Fauna 
Germanica , or Creutzers Entomologia , in order to compare the 
individual with its representation ; and a third read the history 
of the insect from Sturm's Travels . Then would we behold in 
anticipation a whole regiment of the rare Carabi , which are pe- 
culiar to the southern parts of Germany, such as C. calatus , 
Creutzeri German , emarginatus , oblongus , catenatus , &c. ; 
and would wish ourselves immediately in the woods of Istria, 
that we might in reality capture these entomological treasures.” 
44 Other hours were dedicated to Flora, when the plants 
seemed to pass before us in review. Thus, when Wulf relates, 
amongst other particulars of the Euphorbia Characias ( Red 
ployed in Botanical Excursions , Bayreuth, 1820. This admirable work consists of 
sixty loose leaves of small 8vo. paper, divided on one side by lines into as many 
partitions aa there are mosses of Germany, and in each is placed a specimen, with 
the name of the species. These are accompanied by a small descriptive book in 
Latin ; and the whole are inclosed in a case, which scarcely occupies more room 
in the pocket than a common pocket-book; 
