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neither University nor Botanical Garden, nor could I then 

 hear of any botanist there ; but I have since been informed that 

 Mr. Areschoug, Lecturer at the High School of Gottenburg, 

 is a most zealous investigator of Aly(B y of which he has a con- 

 siderable collection. I came here by the canal, which gave me 

 several opportunities, whilst the steamer was passing through 

 locks, of gathering some of the few plants common in Sweden, 

 but either scarce or unknown with us. I arrived at Stock- 

 holm last Thursday, and early the next morning went on to 

 Upsala. There I was fortunate enough to find both Pro- 

 fessor Wahlenberg, who has the care of the Museum of Na- 

 tural History and Botanic Garden, and Professor Fries, at 

 home. Both received me with every civility and attention, 

 and I spent as much time with one or the other as my short 

 stay would admit of my devoting to botany. The Museum 

 was founded after the younger Linnaeus' death, when the loss 

 to the country of Linnseus's herbarium, made the Govern- 

 ment feel the want of a public establishment for the reception 

 of national collections. The herbarium, placed in two spa- 

 cious and well-lighted rooms, consists chiefly of Thunberg s 

 herbarium, Afzelius* African herbarium, and Wahlenberg s 

 private herbarium. Of these, Thunberg's is by far the most 

 valuable ; it is glued down on white paper, after the model of 

 our English collections, but on smaller paper than the Bank- 

 sian and yours ; the species, in like manner, gathered in 

 generic covers ; the genera have been arranged by Wahlen- 

 berg, according to Sprengel. Besides the plants collected by 

 Thunberg himself at the Cape, Japan, Ceylon, and in North 

 Europe, it contains a considerable number of authentic speci- 

 mens, from Swartz, Lamarck, and other botanists of his day. 

 I looked through the Leguminosa and a few others, with the 

 intention of noting down the modern genera to which they 

 should be referred, but I soon found that the ascertaining the 

 identity of the specimens described in his Flora Capensis, 

 would be a work of much more labour and time than I could 

 bestow. His plants are indeed all named ; but in many cases 

 he had discovered the mistakes he had made, erased his 



