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incise, que olim ad opus botanicum Olavi Rud- 
beckii patris, Campc Elysi dictum, pertinent; et 
quidem ad tomum 1™ cujus non nisi duo exem- 
_plaria in rerum natura existit, ideoque inter raris- 
simos libros habetur. Magnum illud incendium 
Upsaliense A°® 1702 totam editionem consumsit, 
et solummodo he figure supersunt. Magni heic 
estimantur ob raritatem. 
Plura scribere prohibet temporis ratio. Cura ut 
valeas, mihique fave. 
Nobil. nominis tui 
Cultor humillimus, 
J. G. ACREL. 
Mr. James Edward Smith to his Father. 
Honoured Sir, Sept. 9, 1784. 
On Monday I had a most excellent letter from 
Dr. Acrel, dated August 13. He says that having 
now received half the sum, the heirs had consented 
to forward the collection, and it was sent to Stock- 
holm August the 4th under the care of a trusty 
mercantile friend, to be put on board the first good 
ship for England. Captain Browell would not wait 
for it. 
Dr. Acrel says, there is among the books a copy 
of that very rare book the Ist volume of Rudbeck’s 
Campi Elysiz, of which there are only two or three 
copies in the world, almost the whole edition hav- 
ing been consumed, with the whole town of Upsal, 
in 1702. Ihave heard Mr. Dryander say, Sir J. 
