THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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in his mind an abridgment of all the books he reads ; and is, in 
fhort, a living encyclopaedia. 
Mr. Von Carlfon, who has a cabinet of natural hiftory, wdiich 
contains a great collection of Ruffed birds. He is very conver- 
fant in ornithology. He has bequeathed by will his collection to 
the academy, and it is on this ground that he was chofen a 
member. 
Mr. Hornftedt, who has made a voyage to Batavia, and thence 
imported fome natural curiofities. 
Mr. Swartz, juftly celebrated throughout all Europe as a diftin- 
guifhed botanifl. He excels particularly in the clafs of crypto- 
gamia. To his literary merits he adds the advantage of obliging 
manners, and of a communicative and generous difpofition. 
Mr. Fahlberg, phyfician to the Swedifh fettlement in St. Bar- 
thelemi, from whence he fent fpecimens of natural productions to 
the academy at Stockholm. 
Mr. Paykull. He is the author of a verb on of Anacreon from 
the French tranflation, for he does not underftand the original 
Greek. He has alfo publifhed fome theatrical pieces, viz. Odenf- 
warman, Virginia and Domuld, which are not thought by any 
one to be above, and by fome rather below, mediocrity. The 
work entitled Fauna Suenia is not fuppofed to be entirely his own 
compofition. 
Mr. Afzelius, lately returned from Sierra-Leone, in Africa, where 
he refided for the fpace of four or five years : he there w T as the 
proprietor of a fmall piece of ground, from which he was driven 
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