BIIIANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAl). HANDL. BAND 13. AFD. IV. N:0 5. 43 



Linné, Equ. aurat., Archiat. Keg., Piofessori Upsaliensi, Acad, 

 Paris. Soc. etc.» Professor Aurivillius') has already remarked 

 that this must have been written at least as late as after 1762, 

 as LiNN.EUS was elected foreign Associate of the Freuch 

 Academy of Sciences, as Bbadley'.s successor, on the eiglith of 

 December that year-). He also signs his name: a Linné, as 

 uobilitated. But the rank of a nobleman conferred upon him 

 by the Kiug as early as in November 175(3^), was not con- 

 lirmed, as was the case with many others, by the then all- 

 powerful Diet until in the month of August 1762 *). In January 

 of the following year 1763 he signs himself Carl von Linné^), 

 and the dissertation de Raphauia, ventilated -^/^ 63, is in fact 

 the first among his printed works which bears his new name, 

 Consequently it may be assumed that the projected title-page 

 above mentioned dates from 1763, or perhaps even from 1764. 

 It gave the contents of the work ])robably as they were ori- 

 ginally determined upon by the Queen. It is, however, not 

 the one finally adopted, which has: »Animalia rariora exotica 

 imprimis Insecta et Conchylia», indicating that the work 

 contained, besides the principal matter: Insects and Shells, 

 also other rare animals. The reason of this was that durinor 

 his visits to Drottningholm in 1751, 1752 and 1754, Linn.eus 

 liad described not only the Insecta and the Testacea, but also 

 the Starfishes and Echini of the Queen's Museum, and now, 

 as it will appear while the printing was going on and rather 

 late, may be even after writing down the dedication, decided 

 to have these also published in the M. L. U.; and thus it 

 happcned that a third title-page, with »Pars III, Yermes», was 

 inserted after the Testacea, inconsistently with systematic order, 

 the latter properly being subordiuate to the former. »The 

 Corals and the Minerals I leave to auother dav >, savs Linn.eu>< 



') Recensio Critica Lepidopterorum, p. .T. 



^) Eg. Anteckn. p. 60. 



') Ib. p. 57. The royal charter was dated '\ ^iT. L. to Tjlas, "/', 70. 



■*) By the three lower Houses only, and in spite of the protestations 

 of the fourth, the House of Nobles, which insisted on its privileges. See 

 Malmström: Sveriges historia under frihetstiden, V. p. 219. 221, 224. 

 LiNN^US was afterwards in due form >iutroduced» as a member of the 

 House of Nobles. In 1760 he bad writteu to Count Tessin: »The King 

 uobilitated me with a legion of others; if I am rejected along with the 

 plurality of them, my_ ambition will not feel hurt, biit if with only a few. 

 I shall resent it.» Ahrling, Carl v. Linnés Svenska arbeten, Första 

 Afdelningen, I. p. 63. 



*) L. to BÄCK, "-V^ 63. 



