372 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANY 



liF.VIEWS. 



Bref och skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linne ; Andra Afdehiingen 

 — Utldndsha brefvdxlmgen, Del 1, Adanson — Brunnicli. 

 Utgifve7i och med ui^plysande 7ioter forsedd af J. M. Hulth. 

 Upsala [1916). Pp. viii + 430. 



This is the seventh volume of the correspondence and short 

 pamphlets of the great Swedish naturahst issued by the Univer- 

 sity of Upsala. Six volumes of the first series, containing the letters 

 which pased between Linne and his own countrymen, as far as 

 Hallman, havejpreviously been published under the editorship 

 of the late Prof. T. M. Fries, whose extraordinary knowledge of 

 Linnean material, and of the persons contemporary with Linn6, 

 was acknowledged to be unequalled. This sixth volume was 

 noticed in the Journal of Botany, 1 (1912), 262-263. 



Since that date the gifted editor has passed away, and his 

 successor has begun his labours by issuing the first volume of the 

 second series, which is devoted to the foreign correspondence of 

 the famous Upsala professor. Dr. Hulth is known to all students 

 of Linnean literature, by his admirable bibliography of the master's 

 writings, and he has succeeded in successfully continuing his 

 predecessor's labours, in spite of the heavy work devolving upon 

 him as one of the chief librarians of the University Library at 

 Upsala. 



This volume will probably appeal to many people whose 

 interest in the preceding volumes was not vivid, inasmuch as we 

 have here letters from many different nationalities, and frequently 

 replies to them. Forty-nine correspondents figure here, and some 

 of them must be mentioned. 



Beginning with Adanson, the third letter-writer is Frederik 

 Allamand, born in Switzerland about 1735, and probably the son 

 of the Leyden professor J. N. S. Allamand. The letters which 

 appear here are the result of the younger Allamand's visit to 

 Dutch Guiana. The introductory note refers to an entry in the 

 printed Library Catalogue of the Linnean Society of " Geyiera 

 'plantamm Arnericanarum," which, when Dr. Hulth was last here, 

 in the spring of 1914, could not be found. (The MS. was after- 

 wards found, and an account of it is given on p. 362.) Frequent 

 letters passed between Linne and AUioni, J. Amman, Arduino, and 

 Ascanius. Then we have the letters of Frederick Calvert, sixth 

 and last Baron Baltimore (1731-1771) who published an account 

 of his travels in Sweden in Latin verse, and presented a copy in 

 special binding to Linn6, with a gold snuffbox. Two letters from 

 Sir Joseph Banks (one in the handwriting of Solander) follow, 

 then four from John Bartram, — a long series from Bartsch, 

 Beckmann, the author of "A History of Inventions," and our 

 own countryman Patrick Browne, — eleven letters with one in 

 English from Linn6. 



Naturally this brief list does not exhaust the names of writers 

 whose letters will repay perusal. We trust that Dr. Hulth will 



