C. A. M. LINDMAN, A LINNEAN EBRBABIUM. I") 



Sweden and went and settled in England. No work of Lin- 

 nseus's other than Spec, plant, ed. 1 (1753) and Centuria I 

 plantarum (1755) is quoted, not even Spec, plant, ed. 2, even 

 with reference to named plants which were subsequently pu- 

 blished in ed. 2 (1763). This makes it probable that the col- 

 lection belonged to Solander. It is a well-known fact that 

 at certain periods the latter was a daily visitor in Linnseus's 

 house and almost spent more time there than in his own 

 home. Linnseus regarded him as one of his most gifted 

 pupils, and in the first two years of his stay in England he 

 actually invited him to act as his substitute, in order after- 

 wards to become his successor. It is beyond all doubt that 

 Solander worked under Linnseus's immediate direction and 

 so collected a fine herbarium; and indeed a very large num- 

 ber of these plants are marked »Hort. Ups.» or »Hort.». It 

 is probable that Solander also assisted Linnseus with his 

 labelling, which seems to be shewn by the fact that a num- 

 ber of the plants now in question (in Solander's handwriting) 1 

 also have some sign of Linnseus's, e. g. H. V. (Hort. Ups.) 

 or the domicile (e. g. India), nay occasionally the name of 

 the species. 



Solander's intimate relation to Linné is still further con- 

 firmed by te fact that a very large number of these (Solan- 

 der's) plants have the inscription »Jamaica, Patr. Browne», 

 or merely »Jamaica». In the year 1758 Linnseus bought from 

 the Irishman Patr. Browne (1720 — 1790), who had lived for 

 some time as a doctor in Jamaica, a great herbarium com- 

 prising more than 1,000 rare plants. 2 We thus see, that 

 Linnseus parted with some of these plants to Solander before 

 the latter left Sweden. When the main part of Browne's 

 plants — consisting to a great extent of original specimens 

 of Linnseus's decriptions — went back to England with the 

 Linnsean herbarium, a by no means small number thus hap- 

 pened to remain in Sweden. It is chiefly on Browne's Ja- 



1 As Solander was a phlegmatic person and a lazy correspondent, 

 letters from him are rare and the author has not yet had a chance of 

 seeing a letter of his. However, by the kind assistance of Mr. L. Bygden 

 and Mr. Aksel Andersson, librarians of Upsala University. I have succee- 

 ded in seeing Solander's handwriting in an old minute-book; I found it 

 perfectly like the specimens on his herbarium sheets. 



- According to Linnieus's letter to Abr. Bäck 18. 7- 1758, when tin- 

 plants arrived in Uppsala. 



