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



becomes clear, tliat this work was in all its essential parts 

 written down in 1752, and made ready for printing in 1753. 

 It is to this work, then waiting for publication, that Linn^us 

 rcfers, as »M.' L. U. >, in nixmerous places in tlie S. N. ed. 10, 

 in the »Ratio Editionis» of which lie enuinerates it among 

 »Collectanea» : »Lovisae Ulricse Reginse Museum Msc : in Con- 

 ohiliis et Insectis stupendum, descriptionibus adornavi», and 

 further on, p. 552, says: »Descriptiones insectorum omisimus, 

 cum indigenorum sistat Fauna Sviecica, exoticorvim tradat (M. 

 L. U.) Museum Ludovicaa Ulrica' Reginae». In the dissertation 

 on the collections from China presented by Lagerström to 

 the University Museum at Upsala') Linn.eus says that he 

 will omit: »ea omnia qu£e ad prelum parata et destinata pro 

 tomo secundo Musei Reois ut et Museo Ser. Regina?, ne fal- 

 cem in alienam messem injiciam», thus giving us to under- 

 ötand that the more elaborate descriptions were kept in store 

 exclusively for those Royal volumes. 



The two works, the Museum Regis and Regina3, were to 

 be illustrated with figures, and Linn.eus expressed his appre- 

 hensions regarding the possibility of linding a draftsman and 

 an engraver as expert as required.-) This difficulty, however, 

 was overcome, and lie was soon happy to hear that Lorenz 

 Pasch^), a painter of no small reuown, had been gained for 

 the Mammals, and to have to send his thanks for figures of 

 snakes to no less a person than Olof Dalin*), the future 

 eminent historian of Sweden, at that time teacher to the Crown- 

 prince. The drawing-master of the Princes, J. E. Rehn, seems 

 to have contributed some ligures of fishes. 



While this was doing for the Museum Regis, other artists 

 Avere at work for the Museum Reginae. The well-known En- 



') Amceuitates Academicffi, IV, p. 233. ^Vi2 ^^• 



■) L. to BÄCK, 79 52. 



') Probably the elder Pasch, b. 1702, d. 3 76(5. His son, Lorenz 

 Pasch jun., b. 1733, d. 1805, lived at Copenhagen 175-1—1757. and in 

 Paris 1758—1760. 



■*) >M. Dalin is readier with his drawings than the others»; »tell 

 him that snakes are hardest of all to deal with». L. to Back, *Vi. */2> 

 '2 ö3. — Dalin had been a student of medicine and a pupil of KiLiAN 

 Stob^us at Lund, where he left in 1727, before LiNNyEUS came there. 

 He used to call himself, in jest, the Appelles of Engsö, from drawing 

 and painting being his constant occupation when at Engsö, the estate 

 of his friend Count Pipeb. Wärburg. Svenska Akademiens Handlingar. 

 LIX, p. 320. 



