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taste for natural history, as well as her husband, 
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not given to the public till 1764, when his Museum 
Regine appeared in 8 vo. His most magnificent. 
publication appeared in 1754, being a large folio, 
entitled Museum Regis Adolphi Frederici, com- 
prehending descriptions of the rarer quadrupeds, 
birds, fishes, serpents, etc., of the King’s Museum, 
in Latin and Swedish, with plates, and an excel- 
lent preface. The preface being one of the most 
entertaining and eloquent recommendations of 
the study of nature that ever came from the pen 
of an enthusiastic naturalist, and was translated 
and published in English in 1786, and again in 
1798. Suffering from severe attacks of the gout, 
which prevented his repose for many nights at a 
time, and were the first symptoms of an approach- 
ing decay in his vigorous constitution. The ex- 
citement of seeing a collection of natural novel- 
ties had a singular effect, and he is said to have 
been cured in this way of a severe fit, by the re- 
turn of a pupil from North America. When he 
heard of the return of Kahn (who spent several 
years in this country before the Revolution 
wrote his travels) with a number of new plants 
and other curiosities, the desire of seeing which, 
and the delight which he felt when he saw them, 
was so great as actually to make the gout dis- 
‘appear. 
