ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 



The annotated copies whence the following catalogues are derived 

 are, a copy of the tenth edition of the ' Systema Xaturae,' vol. i., 

 in which Liune has marked his possession of specimens by an 

 underscore, a dot, or a line below ; these notes apply only to the 

 Amphibia, pp. 197-21-1:, lusecta, pp. 345-640, and Testacea, 

 pp. 667-788. There is also an imperfect copy of the twelfth 

 edition, in which the lusecta are partially noted in the same 

 manner, and at a later date. An endeavour has been made to 

 combine both fragmentary sets of annotations into one series, 

 thus : — 



Amphibia ; only in ed. X., therefore about the year 1758. 



Insecta ; taken from ed. XII., about the year 1767, with 

 references to the numbers of each ; species in ed. X. placed 

 within parentheses, following the specific names. As an 

 instance this may be given : — 



Phalaexa. 



7. pavonia (6). 



The meaning is, that Phalaena pavonia is Xo. 7 in Syst. Nat. 

 ed. XII., but is No. 6 in Syst. Nat. ed. X. The entries 

 are imperfectly given as may be seen by inspection ; many 

 are noted in ed. X. which are not marked in ed. XII. 



Testacea, from ed. X. 



The curious omissions readily noticeable in these lists may be 

 accounted for by the marking being done from memory, and not 

 checked from the objects in front of Linne. This has been 

 alluded to in the previous work, cf. ' Proc' 1911-12, Suppl. p. 8. 



The collection was endangered in April 1766 by a fire which 

 destroyed a large part of the town of Uppsala ; Linne hastily 

 removed his collections and books to a barn outside the town, and 

 some time later, built for their reception a square, one-roomed 

 building of stone, on a height behind his country-house at Ham- 

 marby, where no artificial light or fire was permitted. Here they 

 underwent the oppttsite danger of damage by damp. Less than two 

 years before his death, Linne, on the 2ud of March, 1776, wrote 

 some memoranda relative to his cabinets in which he says : — " The 

 insect cabinet cannot long be kept because of moth " ; and soon 

 after the younger Linne had become possessed of them, we find 



