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and best arranged in our country in the 18th century. Mon- 

 tin's plants are glued on the stoutest and stiffest paper that 

 one can find in herbaria of that date, and he has devoted 

 enormous care to the arrangement, preservation, and getup 

 of the herbarium. No other of the older collectors has sacri- 

 ficed even approximately so much time and trouble to furnish 

 his plants with complete annotations. Labels are not met 

 with, no more than in other contemporary collections (the 

 small slips which are occasionally to be seen on Linnseus's 

 herbarium sheets have got into the herbarium from the collec- 

 tion and often bear merely a number or a provisional classi- 

 fication, most complete in the case of Kalm, Löfling and 

 König). Monti n has used only the back of the sheet for his 

 annotations. Each sheet has not merely complete genus and 

 species (the genus in large and more or less ornate hand- 

 writing), but also the diagnosis out of Spec, plant, or Syst. nat., 

 the domicile of the species (area) and the nature of the locality, 

 and finally information as to the collector, the country of collec- 

 tion and the person who sent Montin the specimen, and often 

 also the year. 



From these annotations we find that Montin carried on 

 an amazlingly extensive and regular correspondence with 

 both Swedish and foreign botanists, collectors, and travellers. 

 He is one of the most zealous and alert collectors of his time 

 and has the great merit of having absorbed in his herbarium 

 very precious collections which were thus safed from destruc- 

 tion or oblivion. 



Montin's herbarium thus contains a large number of 

 original specimens from e. g. Thunberg's travels, amounting 

 to two or three thousand plants and perhaps forming the 

 greater part of this herbarium; next come the plants sent 



skåp med därtill hörande Catalog . . . (här namnes äfven ett mindre skåp 

 med Snäckor och Conchylier , en samling af »Cranier efter diverse djur', 

 åtskilliga .Mineralier m. m.) .■ hvilket allt genom Herr Borgmästaren 

 Säfströms föranstaltande ifrån Halmstad oskadt hitkommit; Och sättes 

 isynnerhet ett billigt värde på denna Ört-Samling, som den är en af de 

 i inom Kiket, och Academien ej ägt någon dylik förut. (Mr J. Dry- 

 ander of London has presented us the tine natural history collection which 

 ett to him by his late uncle Dr. Lars Montin. This collection consists 

 of a large and care herb collection or herbarium, enclosed according to Lin- 

 naeus's system in two handsome eases with catalogue appended ... (hereis 

 mentioned a, smaller case with shells, a collection of skulls of various ani- 

 ei.il . \anous minerals etc. etc.) . . . all of which through the instrumentality 

 of Herr Säfström, the mayor, has arrived here safely from Halmstad. A 

 special value is rightly set on this collection, as it is one of the largest in 

 the kingdom, and the Academy has never possessed anything like it before.) 



