618 LINDSTRÖM, ON THE >^CORALLIA BALTICA» OF LINN^US. 



originals, as they are sufficiently complete and distinct, and, 

 with help also from other subsequent writings of LiNN^us, in 

 which he refers to his first work, it is possible to decide. what 

 corals he meant and to reinstate for them the naraes given 

 by him. 



Before I proceed to clear up the question about these species 

 it is worth the while to investigate the question as to whether 

 LlNNuEUS is really the author of the »Corallia baltica» or not, a 

 moot point, which has conimonly been decided in the negative. 

 There is, namely, a generaily prevalent conviction amongst 

 foreign palseontologists that FouGT is the true author of the most 

 important of the oldest works on our corals. It is not necessary 

 to cite any particular author, as almost every one affixes the 

 name of Fougt to the first work in which corals are described. 

 As the little book itself is very rare and was evidently unknown to 

 most of the said authors, it may be best to give a more exact 

 account of its contents arrd also of all the reprints of it. The 

 title in full is as foUows: 



Q. F. F. Q. S.') 

 Dissertatio 



CORALLIA BALTICA 



adumbrans, 



Quam, 



Consensu Ampliss. Facultat. Medicse 



In regia Academia Upsaliensi, 



Prseside 



Celeberrimo et experientissimo viro 



Domino Doct. Carolo Linn^o, 



Med. et Botan. Professor Keg. et Ord. 



Soco. Imperial N. C. Monspeliens. Stockholmens. 



Upsaliens. Soc. liiijusque Secretario, 



publicse bonorum censurse submittit 



Heneicus Fougt, 



Reg. Gon. Metall. Adscr. 2) 



In Audit. Carol. Majori ad diem VIII Junii 



Anni MDCCXLV. 



Horis, ante meridiem, consuetis. 



UpsaliiB. 



') Quod faustum felisque sit. 



^) This means that he had been iusovibed as a clerk to the Royal Board of 

 Mines at Stockholm. 



