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by Sir Joseph Banks and his assistants (probably amounting 

 also to several thousand sheets). In the same way the Na- 

 tural History Museum now possesses several hundred species 

 from Linnseus's most prominent pupils, Solander (through 

 Banks), Löfling (from Portugal and Spain), Osbeck (from 

 the Cape, India and China), Forskåhl (sent through Vahl), — 

 collections which otherwise are included in Linnaeus's great 

 herbarium in London and have thus been lost to Sweden. 



Amongst other annotations in Montin's handwriting we 

 read scientific observations and data given by the collector; 

 about some of them, e. g. those which Montin himself has 

 described (as e. g. Erica Thunbergii) it is also stated where 

 the description was published. Besides this on nearly every 

 sheet there is an acknowledgement or compliment to the 

 sender of the plant, e. g. »A destructione conservari a me 

 voluit celeb. D:nus Prof. Joh. Leche specimen hoc Kalmi- 

 anum»; »Specimine hoc auxit collectiones meas D:nus Falck 

 med. stud.»; »Elegantis speciminis participem me fecit Med. 

 Licent. D:nus Carolus Petrus Thunberg»; »Specimen misit 

 Nobil. D:nus Banks, Armiger, 1777»; »Specimen herbarii 

 Jacquin misit Generös. Baron. D:nus Banks 1787»; »Specimen 

 ex Japonia per literas misit Exp. D. D. Thunberg anno 1777». 

 All shows an enthusiasm and collecting zeal which well deserves 

 to be noticed and admired, and lets us see the high value 

 Montin sets both on science itself and on the scientists per- 

 sonally. At the same time we clearly realize what a high 

 opinion Montin had of his own well ordered and well cared 

 for herbarium. — When the name of the plant gives occasion, 

 he gives a longer or shorter sketch of the life of the botanist 

 in question with accurate biographical data. In the case of 

 Leckea minor e. g. he wrote a sketch of Leche's life (Professor 

 at Åbo, d. 1761). taking up nearly the whole of the back of 

 the sheet. In the case of Osbeckia chinensis he wrote a long 

 biography of Osbeck in which the following passage occurs: 

 »Natus 1723 in tuguriolo Oset par. Hcålanda dioec. Gotho- 

 burg . . . Novum hoc genus inventori, ut de Republica Bota- 

 nica optime merito, sacrum voluit D:nus Arch, et Eques aurat. 

 Carolus a Linné, ne omni operum et periculorum fructu plane 

 destitui videretur . . . Collegit enim in insula Java et in China 

 extra urbem Canton summo labore ultra CCC plantarum spe- 

 cies, quarum plus cjuam centum particeps f actus sum ...» — 



