4 Notices of European Herbaria. 



and covers are numbered to correspond with a complete manu- 

 script catalogue, and the collection, which is by no means large 

 in comparison with modern herbaria, may be consulted with great 

 facility. 



In the negotiation with Smith, Dr. Acrel stated the number of 

 species at 8000, which probably is not too low an estimate. The 

 specimens, which are mostly small, but in excellent preservation, 

 are attached to half-sheets of very ordinary paper, of the foolscap 

 size,* (which is now considered too small,) and those of each ge- 

 nus covered by a double sheet, in the ordinary manner. The 

 names are usually written upon the sheet itself, with a mark or 

 abbreviation to indicate the source from which the specimen was 

 derived. Thus those from the Upsal garden are marked H. U., 

 those given by Kalm, K., those received from Gronovius, Gron., 

 &c. The labels are all in the handwriting of Linnasus himself, 

 except a few later ones by the son, and occasional notes by Smith, 

 which are readily distinguished, and indeed are usually designa- 

 ted by his initials. By far the greater part of the North Ameri- 

 can plants which are found in the LinnEean herbarium were re- 

 ceived from Kalm, or raised from seeds collected by him. Under 

 the patronage of the Swedish government, this enterprising pupil 

 of Linnaeus remained three years in this country, travelling 

 throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Lower 

 Canada : hence his plants are almost exclusively those of the 

 Northern States.f 



Governor Golden, to whom Kalm brought letters of introduc- 

 tion from Linnaeus, was then well known as a botanist, by his 

 correspondence with Peter Collinson and Gronovius, and also by 

 his account of the plants growing around Coldenham, New York, 



* Upon this subject Dr. Acrel, giving an account of the Linntean collections, 

 thus writes to Smith. " Ut vero vir illustrissimus, dum vixit, nihil ad ostentatio- 

 nem habuit, omnia vero sua in usum accommodata; ita etiam in hoc herbario, 

 quod per XL. annos sedulo collegit, frustra quaesiveris papyri insignia ornaraenta, 

 margines inauratas, et cet. quae ostentationis gratia in omnibus fere herbariis nunc 

 vulgaria sunt." 



t Ex his Kalmium, naturse eximium scrutatorem,itinere suo per Pennsylvaniam, 

 Novum Eboracum, et Canadam, regiones Americee ad septentrionem vergentes, 

 trium annorum decursu dextre confecto, in patriam inde nuper reducem Iteti reci- 

 pimus : ingentem enim ab istis terras reportavit thesaurum non conchyliorum so- 

 lum, insectorum, et amphibiorum, sed herbarum etiam diversi generis ac usus, 

 quas, tarn siccas quam vivas, aljatis etiam seminibus eorum recenlibus et incor- 

 ruptis, adduxit. — Linn. Jlmoin. Acad. Vol. Ill, p. 4. 



