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gratified to see an undoubted British specimen, since he had doubted 

 whether the phmt was really British (see Handhook of British 

 Mosses, ed. 2, 471). B. Pearsoni (Steph.) Pears. Ben Atta — 8.E. 

 slope — Grlencoe, Argyllshire ; coll. W. West, Aug. 1907 ; named by 

 M. B. Slater. This meaning was confirmed by Mr. W. E. Nicholson, 

 to whom I sent the specimen. The plant has hitherto only been met 

 with in Ireland at Killarney and on the Island at Aehill, It was 

 evidently growing among other Hepatics and Mosses, and the stems 

 had been picked out of the mass. — E. Clemixshaw. 



KEVIEWS. 



Bref ocli Skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linne mecl understbd af 

 Scenska Sfateii utc/iAia af TJpsala Universitet. Forsta Afdel- 

 n iiufea Bel VII. Bref till och fran Svenska enskilder personer : 

 Hasself/reen-Kallstroni. Utgii'na och med upplysande noter 

 forsedda af Th. M. Fries f och J. M. Hulth. Upsala, 1917. 

 Pp.vi + 192. 8^ 



The previous issues of this collection have been duly reviewed in 

 this ' Journal,' the last a year ago (1916, p. 372). The present 

 volume resumes the issue of letters written to or received from Swedes 

 at home or abroad. As the short preface by Dr. Hulth explains, this 

 volume contains all that the late Prof. Th. M. Fries had left prepared 

 for printing. Though it fell short of the usual amount for a volume, 

 the committee entrusted with the publication decided to print it as 

 it stands, being the conclusion of the work of the late editor : but 

 another small vokime will be issued, so that when the two are bound 

 in one the bulk will be about the usual amount. 



There are five correspondents whose letters are of special interest ; 

 the first of these is the ill-fated Fredrik Hasselquist (1722-52). 

 When Queen Louisa Ulrika, upon Abraham Back's earnest appeal, 

 purchased the collections of Hasselquist, which were detained at 

 Smvrna for his debts, the whole were ^Dut into the hands of Linnaeus to 

 print an account of his former pupil's eastern journe}^ This was. 

 done by printing first Hasselquist's diary, next a systematic account of 

 his collections, botanical, zoological, and antiquarian, and finally the 

 letters received at Upsala from Hasselquist himself. The letters now 

 printed show several corrections to the book which came out in 1757 

 as " Fredric Hasselquists . . . Iter pala3stinum eller resa til Heliga 

 landet . . . pa Hennes Kongl. Maj:ts befallning, utgifven af Carl 

 Linnieus. Stockholm," 8°. A rapid comparison shows that we here 

 have five, chiefly short, letters, not printed before, and four from 

 Linnseus himself, besides several corrections in spelling and the resto-. 

 ration of certain paragraphs which were omitted in 1757. 



The second notable correspondent is Peter Hernquist (1726-1 80S),, 

 well-known as Sweden's first veterinary surgeon ; here are thirteen^ 

 letters, those of early date giving an account of his travels in France,, 

 from 1763 to 1769, which were undertaken on the recommendation of 

 Linnseus. On his return to Sweden Hernquist finally succeeded in his, 

 effort to set up a veterinary school, of which he became professor 

 and head. 



