PREFACE 



BY THE EDITOR. 



The biographers of Linnaeus have 

 often mentioned the Journal of his Lap- 

 land Tour, to which he himself has fre- 

 quently adverted, in various parts of his 

 voluminous works, under the title of 

 Lachesis Lapponica. The publication of 

 this Journal has been anxiously desired; 

 and so valuable was the manuscript 

 considered, that on his whole collection 

 and library being sold, after the death 

 of his son, it was remarked that these 

 papers at least ought to have been 

 retained in Sweden, as a national pro- 



