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Spanish plants, likewise presented to me one of every 

 kind. 

 " 17. I have a specimen of every one of the plants found by 

 Hasselquist, in Natolia, Egypt, and Palestine. 



" 18. Pastor Osbeck gave me one of every species he found in 

 China and Java. 



" 19. Doctor Baster, of Zealand, sent me a collectiou of plants 

 from Java, consistiug of more than 300 plants. 



" 20. Lagerstrom, Director of the East India Company, ordered 

 the Captains of the East India ships, every year, to collect 

 plants, and gave all that were collected to me. 



"21. Alstromer, having travelled observantly through England, 

 Fiance, Spain, and Italy, sent me several packets, which he 

 had partly collected liimself,and partly received from others. 



" 22. In no garden have there been sown so many kinds of seed 

 as in that of Upsala during any time. I have received 

 seeds from all the curious throughout the world, and have 

 never neglected preserving such of the plants raised from 

 them as I had not before. 



" 23. Kleinhof, who formed the largest botanical garden in Java, 

 and there raised a great many East-India plants, on his 

 return home to Holland sent me a large trunk full. 



" 24. All the botanists of my time contended, as it were, in 

 sending me sj^ecimens of new and rare vegetables, in 

 order to hear my opinion, and to gratify me with some- 

 thing remarkable ; for instance, Jacquin, Schreber, Haller, 

 Arduino, Turra, Bassi, Miller, D. Royen, L. N. Burmann, 

 Scopoli, Duchesne, Grouan, Seguier, Allioni, Hudson, and 

 G-arden. 



" 25. Koenig, on his return home from Iceland, sent me the 

 Iceland plants, among wdiich the collection of Euci and 

 other marine plants was incomparable. 



" 26. Prof. Burmann has at several times sent me plants from 

 the Cape of Grood Hope, and I believe that I possess one 

 of the largest collections of plants from tliat place. 



" 27. Eolander collected in the islauds near America a great 

 many plants, which he gave to M. de Greer, Chamberlain 

 of the Household, who made me a present of every one of 

 tiiem. 



" 28. Tulbagh, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, made me a 

 present of above 200 of the rarest plants that grow there, 

 all put up with great care, besides a number of roots and 

 bulbs alive, for the purpose of being planted in the 

 garden. 



■' 29. Kciuig not also sent me all the rarest plants from Iceland, but 

 even afterwards from Madeira, the Cape of Good Hope, 

 Maderaspan [Madras], and Ti-anquebar, a large collection 

 consisting of several hundreds, among which were many 

 quite new. 



