104 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



eopics mid about fifteen of the second, it was burnt in the disastrous fire 

 wliich niviif^od Upsala, Ifith May, 1702, old style (27 May, N.S.), and de- 

 stroyed the r.ithedral, in wliich was lodged the whole of the stock, the 

 remaiiiinj:^ MS., and the majority of the wood-blocks prepared for the re- 

 maiiiiu}; ten volumes. The elder Rudbeck never rallied from the shock, 

 but died in the follow inp; December. A list of fourteen copies, with their 

 owners, is given by WikstriJm (Consp. lit. Sueciae, p. 229), with four 

 others, some of which may be those previously enumerated. 



The first volume is by far the scarcer ; two copies only are known to 

 have escaped the fire : one is in the Sherardian Library at the Botanic 

 Garden, O.xford ; the other was formerly (in 1792) in De Geer's library, 

 but has since been lost sight of. Impressions from some of the wood-blocks 

 are shown. 



EuDBECK, Olof. Proof-impressions from blocks prepared for 

 ' Campi Elysii lib. primus,' with some of the blocks them- 

 selves. 



. Wood-blocks from above. The upper engraved surface 



appears to be of pear-tree, and the requisite heiglit is some- 

 times given by niiderlays of deal, attached by a couple of 

 iron nails. 



Proofs of Engravings from a MS. copy of Dioscorides in the 

 Imperial Library at Vienna. 



Engraved under the direction of Jacquin during the reign of the Empress 

 Maria Theresa. Two copies only are stated to have been taken from the 

 plates, as the work was not carried to completion. The copy here shown 

 was sent to Linna?us, with notes by Jacquin; it consists of 142 plates in 

 oblong folio in alphabetical order, beginning with apia-Tokoxin fioKpd and 

 ending with ev^ojfiov. The other cojjy was lent by Jacquin to Dr. John 

 Sibthorp for his ' Flora Graeca,' and is now in the Library of the Botanic 

 Garden at O.vford. 



COREESPONDENCE. 



The Society possesses 3000 letters addressed fo Linnaeus, but 

 comparatively few written bi/ him, which are widely dispersed ; 

 those exhibited are selected from some addressed to Eliret, the 

 botanical draughtsman, presented by the descendants of the latter, 

 the Misses Grover and Mr. C. Ehret Grrover, in October 1883. 



29th Nov. 1736. Linnjjius to George Diontsius Ehret. — 

 Holograph in Latin from Amsterdam on botanical subjects, 

 and acknowledging a letter from Ehret of Oct. 3rd. 



16th Jan. 1738. — Holograph in Latin from Leydeu, acknowledging 

 receipt of a picture, offering books, &c. Seal, a lily with the 



motto CONSIDERATE LILIA. 



12th Aug. 1747. — Holograph in Latin from Upsala, expressing 

 regret that Ehret cauuot go to Upsala, asking for seeds from 

 Chelsea Garden &c. Seal, two serpents intertwined around 

 a lily aud holding in their mouths an open book, on one page 



