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quented on Sundays by the inhabitants. To the north of 

 the editJcc is the botanical garden, which was cslabhshcd in 

 1753, in which are a liot-liouse and an anatomical theatre. 

 The whole is surrounded with a very high stone wall. 



Behind the botanical garden are the orchard and plantation 

 belonging to the academy, which is called Paradies Lycka; 

 contaiiiing all sorts oF trees, not oidv indigenous, but foreign, 

 which they endeavour to naturali/ie in Sweden. This planta- 

 tion, as well as the Lundagord, is the work of that respect- 

 able old man Eric GustavusLudbeck, professor of natural his- 

 tory at Lund, and kaight of the order of VVasa, whose house 

 is in front. From the year \755 to 1782, 1 6OOO feet of the 

 trees of this plantation have been annually distributed gratis. 



The centre of the college contains the library and the ca- 

 binet of natural history. The latter has been lately enriched 

 bv the acquisition of a collection of minejrals found in 

 Russia by M. Norberg, counsellor of the mines at Stock- 

 holm. There is here preserved a piece of Descartes's skull, 

 which was placed here by the learned bishop of Lund, Cel- 

 sius. It came into his possession in the following manner : 

 When the body of this celebrated philosopher was about to 

 be transported frt)m Sweden to France, an officer of the city 

 guards of Stockholm, thinking to render a signal service to 

 his country, possessed himself of the skull, and substituted 

 another which ^he placed in the coffin. After the officer's 

 death, the philosopher's skull passed as an object of curiosity 

 through the hands of several persons, and was divided ; the 

 counsellor of state Stiernman, father-in-law to bishop Cel- 

 sius, acquired one of these pieces, which the latter gave to 

 the university of Lund. 



The library possesses a very numerous collection of Greek 

 and Roman medals, and is particularly rich in works of na- 

 tural history. There is here preserved a very tine manuscript 

 V'irgil, of the seventh or cightii century, upon vellum, 

 with large initial letters in gold ; a magnificent manuscript 

 of the Koran ; an .dition of Julius Caesar in folio, 1469, 

 with initials in gold ; a Livy of 1470, and similarly executed ; 

 the work of St. Augustine, " De Civitate Dei," a Venice 

 t'dition, 1470. fol. ; " Petr. de Crescentiis de Agricultura," 



Argentor. 



