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taking pofiTefTion, there were hardly fifty exotic plants to 

 be found in it. By the bounry of his fovereign, how- 

 ever, and by the correfpondence he had eftabliihed with 

 the mod learned naturalifts in Europe, the buildings 

 were repaired, the gajrden replenifhed with the rareft 

 and mod valuable exotics, and at laft it equalled in cele- 

 brity any repofitory of this nature which the world could 

 produce. Six years afterwards, he publi(hed a defcrip- 

 tion of it, containing an enumeration of the foreign 

 plants he had procured and enriched it with, amounting 

 to eleven hundred. His lecture-room ?iow became 

 crouded with ftudents from almoft every country of Eu- 

 rope, and it is faid that at one time he numbered fifteen 

 hundred. Thefe he occafionally took in clufters into the 

 diCerent diftrids of the country for the purpofe of mak- 

 ing collections, and when he at any time found what he 

 thought worthy of demonftration, his pupils gathered 

 round him at the found of a horn or trumpet. 



His lectures comprised, befidcs botany and natural 

 hiftory, the medicinal ufcs of plajits, the Materia Medica, 



;ind the knowledge of difeafes. The conflux of ftudents 

 which thefe brought into the univerfity, and the fame of 

 his fyftem of nature, a fi xth edition of which was pub^ 

 lifhed at Stockholm, in 1748, had now exhibited hiriito 

 the government of his coimtry as its greatest prnamesit 

 and benefadlor. Prefents of whatever was rare and 

 valuable in every department of nature, from all parts of 

 the globe, poured in upon him. The King and Queen 



