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THROUGH SWEDEN. lat
CLASS IIL.
Exterior Phyfics, and Natural Hiftory.
oiMr. Lidbeck, a profeflor at Lund. Having arrived at a very
great ege, he has now loft the recollection 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 as
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 incorredinefs of his
ftyle. He is now become a farmer; and being at the fame time
the fucceflor of Linnzus in the univerfity of Upfala, he is taken
up’ with too many objeéts 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 illuminées, 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 publithed 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-
VoL. I. R i) ybaents
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