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into circumflances of great diftrefs, by that exterminating rage 
which prevailed at that time between the French and the Eng- 
lifh. He colle&ed objeds of natural hiflory in that country ; 
and is going to publifh a Fauna and Flora Quineenjis. He is alfo 
a proficient in oriental languages. 
Mr Acharius, who has publifhed fome tradls on the moffes and 
lichens, under the title of Lichenographia ; in which work he is 
indebted to the affiflance of Mr. Swartz. 
Mr. Norberg; this gentleman has travelled a great deal in Ruf- 
fia, and is efleemed a very ingenious and fkilful mechanic. He 
has made feveral improvements in the fleam engine, and given 
other proofs of mechanical invention. 
CLASS IV. 
Interior Plryjics , and Experimental Philofophy. 
Mr. Von Engeftrom, already noticed in the academy of belles- 
lettres. 
Mr. J. G. Gahn, of Fahlun: he is an excellent metallurgy, 
and acquainted with all the principal experiments in metallurgy, 
as well as with books on that fubjedl in different languages. He 
is the mofl engaging and interefling gentleman in Fahlun, on 
account both of his general knowledge and his polite and ele¬ 
gant hofpitality. 
Mr. Hielm, a chemifl blindly devoted to the fyflem of Berg- 
mann. 
Baron*Von Gedda, formerly an accurate experimenter; but he 
has 
