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The price of flannels is from 5d. to 3s. per yard ; and the aver- 
age may be stated at from 13d. to 14d. per yard ; so that the 
annual value of the manufacture may be stated at about three 
millions Sterling. The wool costs fully one-half of the whole- 
sale selling price ; the oil, labour, and finishing, &c. constitute 
nearly the other half. 1 ’ 
OBITUARY. 
24. Biographical notice of Otto Fabricius. — The sciences’have 
lost in the course of last year two Danish naturalists of great 
reputation, Fabricius and Viborg, an account of whose lives is 
inserted in the 6th number of the Journal of Natural History 
of Messrs Oersted, Horneman and Reinhards, Copenhagen, 
1823. We shall give an extract relative to the first-mentioned 
naturalist.—O^o Fabricius was born on the 6th March 1744, 
at Rudkiobing in the island of Langeland, of which his father 
was pastor. During his attendance at the university of Copen- 
hagen, the reading of the works of Hans Egede on Greenland, 
excited in him a desire to go to preach the Gospel in that 
country. He was ordained in 1768, and nominated missionary 
for the Danish colony of Frederickshaab y where he resided 
from five to six years, often living in the huts of the Green- 
landers, even accompanying them on their expeditions for the 
killing of seals, and neglecting no opportunity of acquiring a 
perfect knowledge of their language, and of observing the pro- 
ductions of the country. His application made amends for all 
the privations connected with this sort of life. Without any 
preliminary instruction, and without any other book than the 
Systema Natura * he became a naturalist by his own exertions, 
and the correspondence of the celebrated Otto Frederick Mul- 
ler, who furnished him with advice. On returning to Copen- 
hagen in 1773, he was successively appointed to several cures, 
both in Norway and Denmark. From 1789 to the time of his 
death, he occupied that of Christianshavn, to which the king 
attached for his sake the title and rank of bishop. He died at 
the age of seventy-nine years, on the 20th April 1822. He 
was twice married, and was the father of sixteen children. His 
principal work on Natural History, and that which has parti- 
cularly made him known to foreigners, is that which he pu- 
blished at Copenhagen in 1780, under the title of Fauna 
Grcenlandka, 
