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it was purchased by Robert Owen and his associates, 
among whom were William Maclure and Thomas 
Say—nomina venerabilia! Owen and his col¬ 
leagues attempted upon another basis to form a com¬ 
munistic society at New Harmony. The Economites 
under Rapp returned to Pennsylvania, and on the 
banks of the Ohio in Beaver County, seventeen miles 
northwest of Pittsburgh, they built the town of Econ¬ 
omy, and ultimately became prosperous and rich. 
The old microscope was for years hidden away in a 
cupboard at the Administration House at Economy, 
and a few years ago was transferred to the Carnegie 
Museum by Mr. Jacob F. Henrici, a nephew of the 
head of the Economite Society, the successor of Rapp. 
But what has this to do with Carl von Linne 7 
In a small drawer in the stand or base of the 
microscope is pasted a piece of paper which is yellow 
with age. Upon it is an inscription which is now 
only in part easily legible, but which upon careful 
scrutiny proves to be as follows: 
Atrox Iapeti genus 
Ignem fraude mala gentibus intulit. 
* * * * 
Nil mortalibus ardui est. 
Hor. Carm. Lib . I, 3 
In perpetuam memoriam consuetudinis quam cum 
dulcissimo sodali Carolo Linne 
Parisiis babebat boc ab eo amicitiae donum 
accepit Mense Augusto MDCCXXXVIII 
Bernardus Jussieus 
