XIV TRANSLATOR S PREFACE. 



English portion has never before been translated. It is 

 totally unknown in this country, but far transcends in 

 completeness and accuracy of description any work of its 

 age on England known to the present translator. Kalm's 

 work in England was carried on from four centres : Graves- 

 end, London, Woodford, and Little Gaddesden. Few 

 subjects have escaped his scrutiny ; but whether social or 

 natural, town or country, each has been described with the 

 minute and delicate accuracy of a man of keen observa- 

 tion, of refined taste, and of high scientific training. 



The botanical names used by Kalm are mainly those 

 of Caspar Bauhin, and of Linnseus in the Flora Svecica, 

 Stockholm, 1745, 8vo. The identification of the plants 

 would have been a hopeless task but for the existence in 

 the- British Museum of two volumes, with MS. notes, from 

 the library of Sir Joseph Banks. The first of these is the 

 copy of the Prodromos Theatri Botanici of Caspar Bauhin, 

 Basileoe, 1671, 4to, with press mark "448 p. 3 (2) " ; and 

 the second the copy of the Fl. Svecica, with the press 

 mark " 450 f. 2." On the margins of these two copies 

 are written the Linnaean names of many if not most of 

 the plants enumerated in those two works, as given by 

 Linnaeus in the 13th Edition of the Systema Natures 

 (Vindobonae, 1767 — 1770, 3 Tom. 8vo), which from its 

 publication superseded the works of the older botanists 

 and the earlier works of Linnaeus himself, 



