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of Sweden had their feparate mufeums, the one at 

 Abrickfdahl, and the other at Drottningholm : the ar- 

 ranging and defcribingof both thcfe was committed to 

 his care. The museum of the Royal Academy at Upfal 

 had likewife been augmented by a rich donation from 

 the king, whilft he was hereditary prince, in 1746: by 

 another from Count Gollenberg in 1745 : and by a third 

 from Mr. Grill, an opulent citizen at Stockholm ; and 

 by the Chinefe curiofities of Lagerftrcem at Gottenburg. 



Within the fpace of ten years, from 1740 to 175c, 

 he publiQied his Flora Suecica, Fauna Suecica, Flora 

 Zeylanica, and Hortus Upfalenfis and Materia Medica, 

 befides twenty- five original treatifcs in fhe feparate annals 

 of his country. 



From almoft all the learned focieties in Europe he 

 received academical honours, and four ©f the nobles of 

 his own country gave a high and honourable tribute to 

 his merits, by caufing a gold medal to be ftru^ in hit 

 remembrance. On one fide of the medal was the creft 

 ©f Linnaeus, with this infcriplion ; 

 Carol. LiNNiKus,M.D.Bot.Prof.Ups. ^tat. xxxix. 



On the other fide were thefe words ; 

 Carolo Gustavo Tessin et imortalitati 

 effigiem caroli linniei el. ekeblad, andr., 

 moepken, n. palmstierna^ bt car, harleman. 

 »1c. mdccxlyi* 



