8 SVEN LOVEN, ON THE ECHINOIDEA DESCRIBEU BY LINN^US. 



nished. Towards the cnd of January 1752 lic is »just re- 

 turncd» to Upsala from the capital. After two montlis of 

 liard work ou the Species Plautarum, with lecturiug and other 

 ])rofessorial duties, he is agaiu summoned to court, but tlirough 

 the interccssion of Bäck obtaius leave to take some rest and 

 recover from an attack of »peripneiimonia», which had brought 

 liim verv low. ') Jt is not uutil the beginning of August 

 that he is at Avork again at Drottningholm, and on the eighth 

 of .September he is back at Upsala. About the middle of 

 December-) he is summoned to Ulriksdal, and there he re- 

 mains during six wceks describing the King's cabinet.-'^) In 

 the foUowing year, ITAS, hc is preparing the Museum Regis 

 for the press, secs to the printing of the Species Plantarum. 

 and asks permission to stay away from Drottningholm during 

 the summer. In August an intended visit there is prevented 

 by the small-pox being prevaient.*). In 1754 he is at Ulriks- 

 dal during Whitsuntide from the 2d to the loth of Juue, and 

 at Drottningholm from the 20tli of July to the 5th of August, 

 as also from the 28th of that month to the lOth of September, 

 this time arranging the herbarium of Hasselquist.^) About 

 the cnd of September he is there again to see the American 

 collections presented by Dalberg, and from the 2d to the 

 9th of November at Ulriksdal working at the King's cabinet. 

 In the following year, 1755, he is summoned to court on 

 Museum business on the 12th of February, and seems to have 

 becn there a second time in the month of jNIarch.'') 



It may be prcsumed that the life at court was not allowed 

 by' LiNN.EUS to interfere with his daily habits'), and that the 

 early daybreak of the Swedish summer found him at his wor- 



cabinets still exlst :it Upsala and now contaiu the numismatic coUection 

 of the Universitv. 



') L. to BÄCK, "Vj 52; to Waugentin, 'Vt 52, Ährling 1. c. p. 270. 



-) '.On the 19th or 20th of December I sball be at Stockholm. See 

 tbat you restore H. Majesty to healtb again, that we may go together to 

 Ulriksdal.» L. to BÄCK, "/12 52. 



^) L. to Wahlbom. '% 53. — »In 1753 the King's Museum was de- 

 scribed.» Egeuh. Anteckn. p. 2. 



*) L. to BÄCK, % 53. In July 54, however. be writes that he bad 

 been at Drottningbolm in August 53. 



•'\ T, tn P.\rk' '/ '*/ 5/ 19/ 6/ 2;/ 10/ RA 



'') L. to BÄCK, 'Vj 55. to Wahlbom ^"/j 55. 



") In winter be slept from niue to seven, iu summer from ten to 

 three. Egenh. Ant. p. 87. 



