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him sayiug, " that mice had done horrible damage to the plants, 

 and that moth and mould had caused considerable damage," and 

 to avoid further loss he was hard at work from morning to night, 

 so that by the evening he was as tired as a labourer. The 

 remaining collections which might take harm by damp in the 

 little stone house, such as Zoophytes and Lithophytes, were 

 removed in September, 1780, and during the following Christmas 

 he was busy in preserving the still extant natural objects, which 

 the wood-mice had begun to damage. 



The foregoing sentences will show that even during Linne's 

 lifetime much damage had taken place, and the fact that the 

 present condition of such groups as the Lepidoptera is not equal 

 to modern collections of I'ecent acquisition, is attributable rather 

 to faulty methods in pinning and setting, than want of care since 

 Linne's time. 



The Amphibia specified were not amongst the collections 

 bought by Smith ; they then were the property of the University 

 of Uppsala, and formed part of the University Museum. An 

 enumeration of these will be found in the Bibliography, under the 

 names of Lcinuberg and Andersson. 



In the account given in Smith's ' Memoir and Correspondence,' 

 several items are mentioned which are no longer extant. The 

 minerals were sold in 1796 by Smith, previous to his leaving 

 London for jVorwich. AVhen the fishes in spirits, the birdskins, 

 and the birds' heads disappeared, cannot even be guessed ; it is 

 quite certain that they did not come into the keeping of the 

 Linnean Society, but vanished during Smith's possession. The 

 cases in which the insects are now preserved, seem to have been 

 made for Smith ; recent investigation goes to show that practically 

 all or nearly all the Linnean types are extant, so far as they were 

 possessed by him, but they are accompanied by many interpola- 

 tions by Smith, who further entered his additions by marking an 

 underscore in pencil below the numbers in the same copy of the 

 ' Systema Naturae,' ed. XII. which Linne had previously used. 

 Smith re-ticketed everything, but preserved the Linnean tickets 

 with his new tickets. 



The Shells have suffered from attempts to arrange them 

 "according to a modern method" (Proc. 1887-88, p. 31), and a 

 later attempt by Mr. Sylvanus Ilanley to put them in order 

 according to his volume, ' Ipsa Liunaei Conchylia,' was left un- 

 finished. The original tin boxes are still preserved, but require 

 expert help in assigning them to their rightful species. 



Of the Fishes a full account will be found given in the 

 'Proceedings,' 1898-99, pp. 15-38, in a Presidential Address. 

 They are now in glass-topped boxes arranged in accordance with 

 Dr. Giiuther's list. 



