?5<> ^he Anfcver of the Royal Academy. 



provement of fciences) have returned without 

 having obtained their aim. ' I even venture to 

 fay, that as much as the ufelefs travels of our 

 reftlefs youths have formerly proved to our 

 clifadvantage in trade, in regard to the balance 

 of money with foreign nations ; fo much ha? 

 been our advantage of late, by means of the 

 travels of fome Swedes into the mod diftant 

 countries. 



The difcoveries which have been made in 

 natural hiftory, and the fcarce collections of fo- 

 reign plants made by Kalm in North- America , 

 Hajfclquifi in Pale/tine and Egypt, and Loefiing 

 in Spain and in the Spanijh parts of South- 

 America, are of fuch a nature, that they are 

 riot to be found in foreign accounts of travels. 

 It is therefore much to be regretted, that the 

 two laft mentioned gentlemen finilhed their 

 pilgrimage in this world fo unexpectedly, on 

 the very travels they had undertaken for the 

 fervice of fcience : a misfortune which cannot 

 be remembered without regret, becaufe it has 

 occafioned an almofl irreparable lofs, not only 

 lo Sweden, but to the whole learned world. 



If the Royal Academy had not made it a 

 rule, §ir, to referve the praife of its friends, 



to 



