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throne, and chancellor of the univerfity, wrote 

 to the convocation, and expreffed his wifhes to 

 have from the treafury of the Univerfity for fo 

 tffeful a purpofe, about 1000 plates, or about 150!. 

 fterling. The univerfity complied generouily 

 with the defire of her chancellor, and gave or- 

 ders that the money fhould be paid to me Royal 

 Academy. The board for promoting manufac- 

 tures gave 300 plates, or about 45!. Mr. Kalm 

 fpent in this journey his falary, and befides very 

 near 130!. of his own fortune ; fo that at his re- 

 turn he found himfelf obliged to live upon a very 

 fmall pittance. The reft of the expences the 

 Academy made up from her own fund. 



WE on purpofe have given this detail from 

 Mr. Kalm's long preface, to (hew the reader with 

 what public fpirit this journey has been fup- 

 ported in a country where money is fo fcarce, 

 and what a patriotic and laudable ardor for the 

 promotion of fciences in general, and efpecially of 

 natural hiflory and hufbandry, animates the uni- 

 verfities, the public boards, and even the -private 

 perfons, in this cold climate, which goes fo far, 

 that they chufe rather to fpend their own pri- 

 vate fortunes, than to give up fo beneficial and 

 ufeful a fcheme. We have the fame inftance in 

 Dr. Haffelquijl, who with a fickly and confump- 

 tive conftitution, went to Afia Minor, Egypt, 

 and Pale/line, and collected fuch great riches in 

 new plants and animals, that Dr. Linn&us y $ fyf- 

 tem would never have contained fo many fpecies, 

 had he not made ufe of thefe treafures, which the 

 queen of Sweden generoufly bought, by paying the 

 debts of Di\ Haffelquift* who died in his attempt 



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