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CLASS III. 
Exterior Phyjics, and Natural Hiftory. 
Mr. Lidbeck, a profeffor at Lund. Having arrived at a very 
great age, he has now loft the recolle&ion of the little knowledge 
of natural hiftory that he once poffeffed. 
Mr. Ofbeck, the oldeft naturalift living, and known in the 
learned world by his Journey in China, which has been tranflated 
into different languages. 
Mr. Thunberg, more advantageoufly known to the world by 
his botanical defcriptions of erica, profea, garderia, gladiolus, &c. 
than by his Travels to Japan, in which his trifling obfervations 
feem to keep pace with the inequality and incorrexftneft of his 
ftyle. He is now become a farmer; and being at the fame time 
the fucceffor of Linnaeus in the univerfity of Upfala, he is taken 
up with too many objects and branches of natural hiftory to be 
great in any of them. His laft productions are very inferior, and 
bear the marks of hafte and negligence. 
Mr. Sparrman, a phyfician, and one of the iliuminees, or pupils 
of Mefmer. His name is fometimes joined to that of Captain 
Cook, the famous circumnavigator, though he had no connection 
with him, except that he failed in the fame fhip. Mr. Sparrman 
has made himfelf known to the world by his Travels in Africa, 
which is but a poor work; Befides this he has publiflied fome 
other books and treatifes, which do not entitle him to a very high 
rank in the republic of letters. It feems that from difappoint- 
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