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ningliolm and uuited to the Mviseum of that palace ^), which 

 in the foregoino- year had passed from the possession of the 

 Queen Dowager to that of her son Gustavus the Third. For 

 many years the collections remained there, and nothing is 

 known regarding them until in 1789, on the recommendations 

 of Leopold, the poet, Olaus Swartz, the eminent botanist, 

 was appointed to take care of them, »a kind of confidential 

 appointment without title or sahiry»^). This seems indeed to 

 have been intended as a temporary arrangement only, since 

 Swartz soon began to hear of the uecessity of having the 

 ^luseum removed to some other place, and various rumours 

 came to his ears about its future destiny. It was, however, 

 not until long afterwards that Gustavus IV Adolphus, who 

 in 1792 had succeeded to the throne, in June 1801 presented 

 the Academy of Sciences-"') with the collections that once had 

 formed the Museum of his Grandfather Adolphus Frederic, 

 consisting almost entirely of Vertebrates, for the most part 

 preserved in spirits. In the month of the ensuing July they 

 Avcre transferred to the buildiugs of the Academy, and have 

 now for sixty years, togcther with the whole of her former 

 collections, been incorporated with the Swedish State Museum 

 in the capital. 



Two years låter the same King made a donation to the 

 University of Upsala of the Museum of his Grandmother, 

 Louisa Ulrica, consisting of »insects, shells, corals, parts of 

 animals, plants, samples of wood» and minerals, »together with 

 the cabiuets, consoles etc.'-, and on the 6th of June in 180o 

 the Rector of the University could report to its Covincil*), 

 that the collections had arrived in a vessel on the lake Mii- 

 laren. anrl had been transferred to the buildino-s of the Mu- 

 seum in the Botanical Garden under the superintendcnce of 

 Professor Tiiunberg, assisted by Mr Geohge Waiilenbekg 

 M. A., the subsequently eminent botanist. Once under the 

 charo-e of Thunberg these collections were taken care of 

 in a most exemplary manner, and have been preserved by 



') BÄCK, in his oration in memoiy of LlNN^US before the Academy 

 of Sciences, V,, 78. 



') Swartz to Thunberg. '*/„ 8!t. -- Pontin. Sami. Skr. I, p. 187. — 

 Wikström. Adnot. qute reliqult Ol. Swartz, p. XXXVI. 



^) Minutes of the Conncil of the Academv of Sciences '" ,,, ^'- Isul. 

 K. Vet. Akad. Nya Hand!., XXII, 1801, p. 352. ' 



""I Minutes of the Consistoriuni Acadeniicum '' ,;. '% 180;5. 



