6 SVEN LOVEN, ON THE ECHINOIDEA DESCRIBED BY LINN^US. 



well as North American speciraens from Garden^). A consi- 

 derablc collectiou of Swedish insects is presented by Hart- 

 man-), anotlier of fishes, plants and shells by Holm, Swedish 

 Consul at Marseille"^), and an »ingens collectio», from China 

 by Lagerström, Director of the Swedish East Jndia Companv 

 at Goteubnrg, this to be divided between the Qiieen's Mu- 

 seum and that of LiNN^us*). The Queen on the solicitation 

 of Bäck redeemed at an expence of 14000 Dollars Copper 

 the collections made in Egypt and Palestine by Hasselquist''). 

 Valuable additions were also received from Surinam and the 

 West Indies through Dalberg ''), from Montpeiller through Gouan 

 in 1758, from the Cape of good Hope through Rich. Tulbagh^) 

 in 176o. Through these acquisitions, and doubtless others of 

 which no record is extant, the two Royal Museums must have 

 become for those days very considerable. LiNNiEUS never failed 

 to extol their value. To him, who had at his own command 

 but a small supply of spccimens out of lower classes of the 

 Animal Kingdom, the Museum of the Queen was the principal 

 sourcc of information with regard to exotic Insecta, Vermes 

 and Zoopliyta. AYithout it he never could have effected as 

 successfully as he did, his grcat scheme of the Systema Na- 

 turae of 1758, and it may be allowable to suppose that his 

 enliohtened friend Count Tessin, when in låter vears he was 

 blamed for having squandered the Queens monev on the whim 

 of a Museum, found somc solace in recollecting that he had 



') Alexander Garden of Charlestou. Egeah. Aut.. p. 86. 



-) L. to BACK, 'Vii 58. The Archiater Abraham Bäck, jLinn^eus' 

 dearest, most faithful and confideiitlal friend at wliose house, as if he 

 were his own bi'other, he used to stay, through all his life, whenever he 

 was in Stockholm-', b. 1713, d. 1795. He was created M. D. at Upsala in 

 1740 and visited during iive years the principal Medical Schools of Eu- 

 ropé, chiefiy Leyden and Paris. In 1745 he becaine a fellow of the Swe- 

 dish College of 1'hysiciaus, in 1752 its President and Head Physician of 

 the Seraphim Hosiiital, the foundation of which was his work in con- 

 junction with Olaus Acrkl, the eminent Surgeon. LlNN^EU? named a 

 genus of the Myrthaceie Bäckia in houour of his friend. — BÄCKS large 

 coUection of letters from Linn.eus is in the library of the Acadeiuy of 

 Sciences. Compare Eg. Ant. p. 52, 67. 



=>) L. to BÄCK, 'V5 54. 



*) L. to BÄCK. '/'.( 54. LiNNiEUS presented his own share to the 

 Museum Acadeniise Upsaliensis: Instructio Musei, Amsen. Acad. III, p. 458. 



*) Deceased near Smyrna 'V, 52; Egenh. ant. p. 181. — L. to WAHL- 

 BOM ^1^2 52, in Åhrling 1. c. - L. to Wargentin, -V4 52. — Ahrltng, 

 LiNN.EUS and his disciples, in: Festen till Carl v. L1NNÉ8 minne. (Com- 

 memoration of LiNN/Eus), Upsala, 1878, p. 72. 



'') L. to BÄCK, 2%, Vio- 54, C. Q. Dalberg, formerly an Officer in 

 the Army, had iived some years in Surinam. 



') General, Dutch Governor of the Cape Colony. Egenh. Ant. p. 55, 195. 



