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museum, wherein he gathered the largest collection of botanical treasures 

 that at that time had anywhere been brought together. He was happy in 

 his domestic relations, and lived to see his son succeed to his chair at the 

 University of Upsala. 



Although Linnseus's publications relate mainly to botany and medicine, 

 they cover the whole realm of natural history. His earliest contribution to 

 science is generally considered to be his " Florula Lapponica," the first part 

 of which appeared in the Transactions of the Swedish Academy in 1732.^ 

 This was followed by the first edition of his " Systema Naturse," published 

 in Leyden in 1735. The " Fundamenta Botanica " followed in 1736, and 

 was later enlarged and republished as the " Philosophia Botanica," in 1751. 

 During the next ten years various other botanical publications appeared in 

 rapid succession. His " Fauna Suecica," published in 1746, was his first 

 special work relating to zoology. It is also notable as being the first work 

 especially devoted to the entire fauna of any country. It was republished, 

 with many additions, in 1761. Other botanical and several medical works 

 followed during the next seven years, including his monumental " wSpecies 

 Plantarum," published in 1753. In the same year also appeared the " Mu- 

 seum Tessianum," consisting chiefly of descriptions of minerals and fossils, 

 the latter mainly shells and corals, and in 1754 the "Museum Adolphi 

 Friderici," relating exclusively to exotic animals. This was a folio with 

 thirty-three plates, the most extensive and most elaborately illustrated of 

 all of Linnseus's works. Two important medical works appeared in 1760, 

 and his third zoological work, the " Museum Ludoviciae Ulricse," in 1764, 

 a thick octavo, to which was annexed the second part of the "Museum 

 Adolphi Friderici." 



During these thirty years of marvelous scientific activity, Linnaeus also 

 contributed many papers to the Transactions of the Upsala and Stockholm 

 academies and to the "Amoenitates Academici." The latter, in ten octavo 

 volumes, consist of dissertations or academical theses, mostly by his students, 

 selected, edited and published by him, and thus may be regarded as of equal 

 authority with his own writings. Seven of these volumes were published 

 during his lifetime, and contain a number of his own minor papers. 



This brief outline of Linnseus's life, his opportunities, and the published 

 results of his scientific labors, affords the basis for the consideration of 

 Linnaeus as a zoologist. As has been shown, he was primarily a botanist; 

 he was also a mineralogist, an entomologist and a conchologist, but only 

 incidentally a vertebrate zoologist. In this field his interest was less strong, 

 his opportunities for research the most restricted. His zoological writings, 



1 His Hortus Uplandicus is said to have appeared one year earlier. See List of the Works 

 of Linnaeus, in Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Vol. I, 1833, p. xvii, footnote. 



