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LINN.EAN SOCIETY. « 



February 4, 1851. — Robert Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair, 



The President exhibited specimens of stems of Kingia australis, 

 R. Br., and Xanthorrhoea arbor ea, R. Br., together with drawings of 

 the former, illustrative of its structure, especially of the siliceous 

 covering of the vascular fasciculi of the persistent bases of the 

 leaves ; and in both genera, the means by which the. stems are pro- 

 tected from the scorching fires of the natives. lisd.t in sm X'^^^ 



Read the following " Notice concerning Linnseus's Iter Dale- 

 carlicum," extracted from a letter of Mr. Charles Hartman, M.A,, 

 to the Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm, 

 in which he gives a report of his examination of the collections and 

 manuscripts of Linnaeus in the possession of the Linnean Society of 

 London ; which letter is printed in the Academy's Proceedings at 

 the Meeting on the 12th September 1849 (being No. 7 of the 6th 

 year), p. 185. Translated from the Swedish by N. Wallich, M..iet 

 Phil.D., V.P.L.S. &c. ,3 



After mentioning the library of Linnseus, Mr. Hartman proceeds 

 as follows : — 



But what especially interested me was to find a manuscript of 

 Linnaeus, consisting of 176 folio pages, containing a complete ac- 

 count of his journey in Daleoarlia in 1734, arranged according to 

 the plan adopted in his other published Travels, and enriched with 

 remarks on divers subjects, marginal notes of contents, such as 

 • OEconomica, Geographica, Botanica,' &c. After the proper diary 

 follows a small appendix of the names, and an extremely short but 

 graphic character of clergymen and other persons in the parishes 

 of the Dalas (valleys, Dalecarlia) which were visited ; a faithful 

 chart executed by the geographer to the party ; and lastly, a seem- 

 ingly jocose warrant, issued to their mineralogist, in the handwriting 

 and under the sign manual of Linnaeus himself. As this journey 

 has never, as far as I know, been published, or even noticed, it 

 may not be improper to give here a transcript of its title and pre- 

 face, which will best serve to give an idea of the contents of the 

 MSS., and the plan and object of the journey itself. The writing 

 as well as the whole report being in Swedish, in the not always 

 very legible handwriting of Linnaeus, I have had some difficulty in 

 deciphering it, and have been obliged to omit some words in two 

 places. 



The title is as follows : — Caroli Linnaei, P.S.R. Iter Dalekarlicum 

 jussu 8r impensis Viri Generosissimi et Excellentissimi Dni Nicolai 

 Reuterholmi Gubernatoris Provincia Dalekarlicce institutum per Dale- 

 karlicam Suecice provinciam quoad orientalem, Alpinam «^ occidentalem 

 partem, observationibus constans Geographicis, Physicis, Mincralogicis, 

 Botanicis, Zoologicis, Domesticis S; Oeconomicis quotidie collectis a 

 mensis Julii die 3 ad Augusti d. 11 Anni 1734. 



