4 Notices of European Herbaria. 
- and covers are numbered to correspond with a complete manu- 
script catalogue, and the collection, which is by no means large 
in — with modern herbaria, may be consulted with great 
facility. 
In the Fediiciantion with Smith, Dr. Acrel stated the number of 
species at 8000, which probably is not too low an estimate. The 
specimens, which are mostly small, but in excellent preservation, 
are attached to half-sheets of very ordinary paper, of the foolscap 
size,* (which is now considered too small,) and those of each ge- 
nus covered by a double sheet, in the ordinary manner. ‘The 
names are usually written upon the sheet itself, with a mark or 
abbreviation to indicate the source from which the specimen was 
sderived. Thus those from the Upsal garden are marked H. 
those given by Kalm, K., those received from Gronovius, Guna a 
&ec. The labels are all in the handwriting of Linnzus himeslfi 
except a few later ones by the son, and occasional notes by Smith, 
-~which are readily distinguished, and indeed are usually designa- 
ted by his initials. By far the greater part of the North Ameri- 
can plants which are found in the Linnean herbarium were re- 
ceived from Kalm, or raised from seeds collected by him. Under 
the patronage of the Swedish government, this enterprising pupil 
of Linneeus remained three years in this country, travelling 
throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Lower 
Canada: hence his plants are almost exclusively those of the 
Northern States.+ 
Governor Colden, to whom Kalm brought letters of introduc- 
tion from Linneus, was then well known as a botanist, by his 
correspondence with Peter Collinson and Gronovius, and also by 
his account of the plants growing around Coldenham, New York, 
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* Upon this subject — Acrel, giving an account of the Linnean collections, 
thus writes to Smith. ‘ Ut vero vir illustrissimus, dum vixit,, nihil ad ostentatio- 
nem habuit, omnia vero sua in usum accommodata; ita etiam in hoc herbario, 
quod per XL. annos sedulo collegit, frustra quesiveris papyri insignia ornamenta, | 
margines intouneint, et cet. qui ostentationis gratia in omnibus fere herbariis nunc 
vulgaria sunt.” 
t Ex his Kalmium, nature eximium scrutatorem, itinere suo per Pennsylvaniam, 
peice Eboracum, et. Canadam, regiones Americe ad septentrionem vergentes, 
trium annorum decursu dextre confecto, in patriam inde nuper reducem Jeti reci- 
pimus: ingentem enim ab istis terras reportavit thesaurum non conchyliorum so- 
lum, insectorum, et amphibiorum, sed herbarum etiam diversi generis ac usus, 
quas, tam siccas quam vivas, allatis etiam seminibus eorum recentibus et incor- 
ruptis, adduxit.—Linn. Amen. Acad. Vol. IU, p. 4 
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