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of twenty ducats. His paper was on the indigenous 

 alpine plants of Sweden, and theijr iifes ; and was infert- 

 ed in the Stockholm Tranfadions. He had likewife, 

 in 1759, adjudged to him the prize of a hundred ducats, 

 offered by the Imperial Acadeniy of Sciences at Peters- 

 burg, for the befl: paper written to eftablifh or refute, by 

 new arguments, the do£i:rine of the fexes of plants. 

 This diillndion, by which his fyllem was eftablifhed in 

 a fore'gn unlverfity, muft have been the more flattering 

 to Linne, as Siegefbeck, a profelfor in that academy, had 

 with more than common zeal and warmth, endeavoured 

 to prov? this do61;rine has no foundation in nature. His 

 Genera Morborum, apd Clavis Medica, were boihpui?- 

 Ufljed in I76:». 



Before his death he was eledled a member of twenty 

 academies, including the three of his own country. In 

 1759 he became member of the academy at Florence, ia 

 1762, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 at Paris, and to the BritiPa Ecenomical Society ; in 1766 

 to that of Drouthein, and in 1767 to that of Cell ; in 



1770 he was eleded to the Academy of Philadelphia ; in 



1771 to that of Rotterdam and Sienna ; in 1772 to that 

 of Bern, in 1775 he became a Fellow of the Royal Pa~ 

 triotlc Society in Sweden ; and a little time before his 

 death he was admitted to the Medical Society of Paris. 



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