Memorials of Linntzus 



Keeper of the Natural History Department at the British 

 Museum. (See portrait in third case.) The latter part of 

 the letter relates to various flowers ? Belladonna, Gardenia, 

 etc. ; Upsala, I Jan., 1762. Swedish. Autograph. 



9 LETTER FROM LINNJEUS to Emanuel Mendes da Costa, 

 F.R.S., the well-known conchologist, acknowledging the receipt 

 of his book \_A Natural History of Fossils. Vol. I., part I., 

 1757] ; Upsala, 27 Feb., 1759. Latin. Autograph. 



10 LETTER FROM LINNJEUS to Philip Miller (1691-1771), 

 gardener of the Physick Garden of the Apothecaries' Society 

 at Chelsea (17221770), concerning the (Estrum lapponum, an 

 insect which attacks the reindeer in Lapland ; 10 Nov., 1737. 

 Latin. Autograph. 



Miller's herbarium, illustrating his Gardeners Dictionary^ 

 was purchased by Sir Joseph Banks in 1774 and is now in the 

 Department of Botany. 



11 LETTER FROM LINNAEUS to Antoine Gouan, Professor 

 of Botany at Montpellier, describing the flowers he sees from 

 his window, etc. ; Upsala, I Sept., 1765. Latin. Autograph. 



12 LETTER FROM LINNAEUS to Gouan, concerning various 

 plants; circ. 1765? Latin. Autograph. 



13 " CAROLI LINNAEI PAN SUECICUS." Tables of plants 

 accepted or rejected as food by different classes of animals ; by 

 Nicholas L. Hesselgren, with additions by Linnaeus. Auto- 

 graph. The letters at the heads of the columns stand for boves, 

 caprae, oves, equi, sues. 



14 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME ANIMALS AND PLANTS. Latin. 



Autograph. 



15 THREE ACADEMIC DISSERTATIONS by various authors 

 with notes in Linnaeus's hand ; lent by the Linnean Society 

 from the Library of Linnaeus : 



THE GUINEA-PIG (Mus indicus], Upsala, 1754; Linnaeus 

 has altered the name to Mus Porcellus, as it appears in the 

 reprint in his Amoenitates Academicae (also shown) : THE 

 MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS, Upsala, 1756 : FLORAL CALENDAR, 

 Upsala, 1756. 



