4 ESSAYS. 
that they have fallen to the lot of the “ toto disjunctos orbe 
Britannos” ; yet a journey even from Landshut to London 
may perhaps be more readily performed than to Upsal. 
After the death of Sir James Edward Smith the herbarium 
and the other collections, and library of Linnzus, as well as 
his own, were purchased by the Linnzan Society. The herba- 
rium still occupies the cases which contained it at Upsal, and 
is scrupulously preserved in its original state, except that, for 
more effectual protection from the black penetrating dust of 
London, it is divided into parcels of convenient size, which 
are closely wrapped in covers of strong paper lined with mus- 
lin. The genera and covers are numbered to correspond with 
a complete manuscript catalogue, and the collection, which is 
by no means large in comparison with modern herbaria, may 
be consulted with great facility. 
In the negotiation with Smith, Dr. Acrel stated the num- 
ber of species as 8000, which probably is not too low an esti- 
mate. The specimens, which are mostly small, but in excellent 
preservation, are attached to half-sheets of very ordinary 
paper, of the foolscap size! (which is now considered too 
small), and those of each genus covered by a double sheet, in 
the ordinary manner. The names are usually written upon 
the sheet itself, with a mark or an abbreviation to indicate the 
source from which the specimen was derived. Thus those 
from the Upsal garden are marked H. U., those given by 
Kalm, X., those received from Gronovius, Gron., ete. The 
labels are all in the handwriting of Linnzus himself, except 
a few later ones by the son, and occasional notes by Smith, 
which are readily distinguished, and indeed are usually desig- 
nated by his initials. By far the greater part of the North 
American plants which are found in the Linnzan herbarium 
were received from Kalm, or raised from seeds collected by 
1 Upon this subject Dr. Acrel, giving an account of the Linnean col- 
lections, thus writes to Smith: “Ut vero vir illustrissimus, dum vixit, 
nihil ad ostentationem habuit, omnia vero sua in usum accommodata ; ita 
etiam in hoc herbario, quod per XL. annos sedulo collegit, frustra quesi- 
veris papyri insignia ornamenta, margines inauratas, et cet. que ostenta- 
tionis gratia in omnibus fere herbariis nune vulgaria sunt.” 
