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him the bounty money, and receives his promise. The
next morning Lomonósof wakes up in uniform, and, in
spite of all his prayers and protestations, is a Prussian
cavalry soldier. He is taken to the fortress at Wesel.
He deserts, hotly pursued, amid dangers and anxieties,
crossing the Westphalian boundaries, and arrives at
Amsterdam, representing himself to be a poor student from
Saxony. In Holland the Russian minister takes charge
of him, and sends him back to St. Petersburg.
From the Hague he wrote to his wife for the first
time since his flight; but in St. Petersburg, where he
did not feel that he was in a situation to support his
wife and the child she had brought to him, he allowed
two whole years to pass without any communication,
until she, through the Russian minister at the Hague,
finally learned where he was, and with his consent came
to him.
From 1745 Lomonósof labored at St. Petersburg as
professor of chemistry and experimental physics, and
from 1755 began to advocate a plan for the re-organization
of the Scientific Society, in which he fought against
the encroachments of the Germans, hitherto the sole
masters of the situation; and, as the passionate, nay,
fanatical exponent of Russian nationality, was soon
guilty of no less scientific and personal encroachments.
Here at home he developed his whole genius as a
scientist. He was the first Russian naturalist who, on
the foundation of the scientific results of Western
Europe, which he laid before his pupils, was an
independent inventor of machines and apparatus, and an
independent discoverer of hitherto unknown laws of
nature. The great mathematician Euler gave the most
appreciative praise to his work on the phenomena of
electricity, light, and air. Euler publicly declared that
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