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portant and instructive additions, accompanied 
y communications from Gmelin, and others, who 
had visited Siberia, and the original collections 
of Magnol and Sauvages were transmitted from 
Montpelier. Gronovius also transmitted:the col- 
Flora Suecica, and in 1746 his Fauna Suecica 
Rector of the University, and was memorable to 
him also for an attack of the gout, so violent as to 
endanger his life. He always attributed his re- 
storation from this fit, and other subsequent ones, 
to his eating abundantly of wood strawberries, 
the only sort then known in Sweden. 
To this attack of the gout, however distressing 
to the patient, the world is indebted for one of his 
most valuable and remarkable works, the Philos- 
ophia Botanica. The subject of this work must 
have been comprehended in the mind of its author 
when he wrote his Fundamenta Botanica, of 
- Which itis professedly an exemplification, in the 
form of acommentary. This publication embraces 
the whole range of the science of the vegetable 
kingdom, and indeed all the principles of the 
knowledge of nature. 
About this period the Queen of Sweden, sister 
to Frederick the Great, of Prussia, had a fervent 
