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which he was not a little proud. " It was/' says 

 he^ " the greatest honour that could be conferred on 

 a man of science^ and hitherto no Swede had en- 

 joyed it. The number of foreign members is li- 

 mited to eight. The following are the names of 

 the persons who were then invested with that dig- 

 nity : — Morgagni, Bernouilli^ Euler^ Macclesfield, 

 Poleni, Haller^ Van Swieten^ and Linnaeus." 



The botanic garden at Upsal received acces- 

 sions corresponding to the increasing fame of its 

 restorer, and was enriched by specimens or seeds 

 transmitted from many remote regions ; from Kamt- 

 schatka and Siberia, by Demidoff and Gmelin ; 

 from China, by several of his pupils ; from Egypt, 

 Palestine, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope, by 

 Thunberg, Sparrmann, and others; from Canada, 

 Pennsylvania, and Virginia, by Kalm and Grono- 

 vius; from Jamaica, by Dr Browne; and from South 

 America, by Miller. A great quantity of African 

 seeds came into his possession in the following sin- 

 gular manner : — Donati, a young Italian naturalist, 

 had been sent to Egypt and the Levant, at the ex- 

 pense of the King of Sardinia. At Alexandria he 

 fell in love with a young lady, the daughter of a 

 Frenchman, and in order to forward his suit, al- 

 lowed her brother to accompany him on his tra- 

 vels. The intended relative, however, robbed 

 liira of all his money and collections, and carried 

 them to France. Not finding himself safe there, 

 he embarked again for Constantinople ; but being 

 still unable to turn his stolen seeds to any ac- 

 count, he sent them to Linnaeus, whose name he 

 had often heard mentioned by Donati. Among the 

 rare exotics which he procured was the tea-plant. 



