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it was in confequence of this dedlcaiion to his great 

 patron, that Teffimaels in the year following, caufed a 

 filver medal to be (truck, with the crefl: of Linnaeus on 

 one fide, and on the other three crowns, on which the 

 fun (heds his beams, with the fimple motto, illujirat* 

 His own fovereign likewife, king Adolphus Frederic, 

 awake to his extraordinary merits, bellowed upon him 

 frequent marks of his royal diftindion. 



In the year 1750, he had fome fevere attacks of the 

 gout: and himfelf relates, that accidentally refrefh'ing 

 himfelf with fome ftraw-berries, he felt himfelf relieved, 

 and afterwards, whenever the fit recurred hadrecourfe to 

 them, and eventually expelled it from his frame. 



In 1751, he publiflied his Philofophia Botanica> 

 which Rofleau mentions as the mofl: philofophical book 

 he had ever fcen ; in I753> appeared the firft edition of 

 his immortal work the Species Plantarum, which he 

 dedicated to the King and Q^ieen of Sweden, and in 

 which he defcribcs 7,300 fpecies of plants ; and in the 

 Tame year he publifhed the Mufeum Teffinianum, or 

 account of the natural rarities in Count Teffin's mufeum: 

 in the year following appeared his Mufeum Regis Adol- 

 phi, and in ten years afterwards the Mufaeum Reginae 

 Louifae Ulricas. The Amsenitates Academical were 

 begun in 1749, and continued to 1769, making feven 

 volumes, and containing one hundred and fifty differtati- 

 ons, all on the history and economy of nature ; they were 



