C. A. M. LINDMAN, A LINNiEAN HERBARIUM. 5 



letter from Prof. J. G. Acrel in Uppsala to J. E. Smith 

 (feb. 1784). ' Moreover at his death he gave orders that the 

 former, the so called »Herbarium parvum» (i. e. the plants 

 he collected in his youth), should not be sold but should be 

 given to the Swedish collector and Maecenas Baron Clas 

 Alströmer, who had in former days advanced him money 

 for his journey to England in 1781 — 82.- 



Consequently there were incorporated with the Herb. Al- 

 strömer 1) the late Prof. Linne's own herbarium, among 

 which a great number of plants are labelled »H. U. 1777»; 

 2) a great number which he received from his father and 

 which the latter in his lifetime had furnished with notes and 

 classifications; and it is through the Herb. Alströmer, to 

 which we will now pass over, that these Linnaean plants 

 came into the possession of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet. 



Among the plants of Linné fil. several were not collected 

 or obtained until after the death of the father, as e. g. the 

 collection which Linné fil. acquired from Banks and others 

 during his visit to London. 



All the plants out of the herbarium of Linné fil. are 

 included here, even those whose authentic origin from the 

 father is dubious; during his short professorship Linné fil. 

 was in fact occupied with the arrangement and publication 

 of his father's scientific remains. 



Clas Alströmer's herbarium. 



Baron Clas Alströmer (1736 — 1794), son of the famous 

 promoter of Swedish industry Jonas Alströmer, was Lin- 

 naeus's pupil in Uppsala; after leaving the university he made 

 a journey to Southern Europe (1760 — 1764), mainly with a 

 view to natural history. When he returned home he devoted 

 himself zealously to natural history collections, retired early 

 from his official career, laid out a botanical garden at Chri- 

 stinedal near Gothenburg and brought together a very large 

 and valuable herbarium. On his death this herbarium was 

 left to the R. Academv of science in Stockholm and forms 



1 J. E. Wikström, Årsberättelse om botaniska arbeten ock upptäckter 

 för år 183-2, till Kongl. Vet.-Acad. afgifven 1833. p. 239. 

 '-' Letter from Acrel to Smith: ibid. p. 241. 



