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has lived till he has become very aged, till he has loft his fight; 
and what is more mortifying—his fame. 
Mr. J. Gadolin,' a’ very good chemift, and author of a treatife 
on the elements of chemiftry. 
Mr. Julin, an apothecary ; his admiflion into the academy was 
the reward of his meteorological obfervations at Ullaborg, which 
were made with great diligence and accuracy : he is a good and 
adtive collector in natural hiftory. 
Mr. Broling, who has been in England for the purpofc of fee¬ 
ing the mines, and becoming acquainted with the methods which 
are ufed in that country of working them : he paftes in Sweden 
for the inventor of a flexible catheter, made of elaftic gum; and 
alfo of a folution of iron for ftamping names or any other mark 
on linen cloth, without injuring it. He imported from England 
the fecret of pulveriling Peruvian bark and other fubftances ; on 
which account it is believed he was forced to quit that country. 
Mr. Edelcrantz, already noticed in the Swedifh academy ; he 
is a kind of butt to both academies. Guftavus III. called him 
Lyren-krantz ; but the fecretary of ftate, Schroderheim, obferved, 
that he ought to be called Mufen-hrantz , which in Swedifh im¬ 
plies a rifible double fignification. 
Mr. Sioften, a young man, as well in years as in the ftudy of 
phyfics ; he has tranflated into the Swedifh tongue Cavallo’s 
Theory of Eledtricity. 
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