20 PROCEKDINOS OF TRF. 



" Linnffus's Herbarium. The largest, uudoubtedly, that ever 

 was seen. 



" 1. I have collected, from my infancy, all the plants of Sweden, 



top;ether with those of the Swedish gardens. 

 '2. All those of Lapland I collected with incredible diligence. 

 " 3. On my travels through Denmark, Germany, Holland, 

 England, and France, 1 did all I could to procure plants. 

 " J. Clifford's garden, being under uiy management for the 

 space of three years, and as I was empowered to write for 

 all I could get, afforded me a considerable number, which 

 I carefully preserved. 

 " 5. Clifford had an excellent herbarium, from which he gave 



me all the duplicates. 

 " 6. On my assisting Yan Koyen to arrange the garden be- 

 longing to the IJniversity of Leyden, I obtained not only 

 a large number of recent plants, but also many dried 

 ones. 

 " 7. When I assisted Dr. Gronovius in examining Clayton's 



plants from Virginia, I got du|ili' ates of most of them. 

 "8. Miller, of Chelsea, permitted me to collect many in the 

 garden, and gave me several dried specimens, collected by 

 Houston in Suuth America. 

 " 9, I likewise got many from the garden at Oxford, then 

 under the management of Dillenius. 

 "10. Jussieu also gave me a great many dried specimens, be- 

 sides the rare ones I got from the Paris garden. 

 "11. Professor Sauvages had received from Magnol (the great 

 botanist) his entire herbarium, which Sauvages made me a 

 present of. 

 " 12. On Gmelin's return from Siberia, in which country he had 

 travelled many years, he gave me a specimen of every 

 plant he had collected, in order to learn my opinion of 

 each. 

 " 13. Steller, who was Gmelin's assistant on his travels in 

 Siberia, and who went as far as Kamtschatka and the 

 northern part of America (born as it were to collect 

 plants), died at Kiumeni, on his return home. Leubel 

 took his collection and sold it to Demidoff, who forwarded 

 to me the whole of it, that I miglit affix the names, with 

 permission to keep all the duplicates. 

 " 14. Brown[e] made a fine collection of plants in Jamaica, and 

 published on them in folio, when lie returned to London. 

 On his return to America, he sold the collection to me. 

 It was a fine and rare herbarium. 

 " 15. Prof. Kalm, born to investigate plants, collected a vast 

 number in North America, and gave me a specimen of 

 each. 

 ** IG. Prof. Lofling, who with incredible care collected the 



