242 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



fine. In Linnaeus's tours in Lapland and Dalecarlia 

 he gathered 1,000 species of insects, which are neatly 

 pasted on paper ; among them are sixty-five different 

 specimens of flies, including the large fly the oestorus, 

 which makes such havoc among the reindeer in Lapland. 



The Linnasan Society possesses Linnasus's insect 

 collections. They are in damaged condition, as Sir J. 

 Smith was less of an entomologist than a botanist, 

 so that there was no care given to arranging the 

 specimens. 1 



6 Nature seems exhaustless in her invention of new 

 insects hostile to vegetation.' 2 Sohlberg found none 

 but imperfect specimens of leaves, which disturbed him, 

 as, to his surprise, he found the leaves of broad-leafed 

 plants, such as plane, and maple, and some poplars, 

 become much larger as they journeyed northward, while 

 the trees themselves were unusually small. 3 Linnasus 

 accounted for this phenomenon, which he had himself 

 observed in the north of Norway, by the long duration 

 of the daily light in summer. 



They passed Fiellen, continuing their way through 

 the forest, the refreshed mountains being now ' silver- 

 veined with rills.' The clouds on the highest mountain, 

 Slerol Stadet, which had first appeared below, now ap- 

 proached the travellers, writes Clewberg in the journal. 

 They skirted the reed-fringed Storbosjo and came to 



1 There are reckoned to be 112 species of butterflies in Norway, 

 Sweden, Lapland, and Finland. 



2 Lowell. 



3 Much of this country belongs to the willow and birch region. 



