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DR. ALEXANDER BLACKWELL. 
(1709—1747.) 
By B. Daypon Jackson, Ph.D. (Upsal), Sec. L.S. 
Linn 
The rea, reason is, doubtless, that these particulars have remained 
in their original Swedish dress, and have not hitherto been trans- 
Mr. Blackwell, an Englishman, who had become known through 
a treatise on denshiring ogee and sero for some years 
been in Sweden, and ha carryi t improvements in 
agriculture. Linné, and his creniiing comnppoaleit Liidbeck, paid 
a special visit, and he records his observations in the volume 
d 
ag ec BE as solemn coun ah when the fat ther had hi ise lf pas: 
away. Linné had, throughout his life, a strong conviction of an 
overruling Providence, and in these pages he gives many a 
of retributive justice in the case of wrongdoers. The work was 
first issued, soon after its discovery, in June 1848, by Prof. E. 
entirely revised and e ed by Pr 1878 ; 
it is from this erage ‘that the following translation is made, with 
the editors’ n The translation follows the original 
as closely as possible, so as to show the simple familiar talk of 
the father to his son. [The name Blackwell i is indifferently veces 
* Blatchwell,” “ Blackwel,” and “ Blackwahl.’’} 
‘“ BLACKWELL. Jonas Alstrémer requested an economist from 
England. Blackwel M.D. was sent, a bold, ‘aomutt atheist xs 
Received as a son by Alstrémer, he man sent cena oe 
E Bee et bis. own to Huglan d. On one occasion A. a& 
a snake in his —— in "this BL. stated t at the 
ould stran } 
