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pain^ he had taken, to bring this work to its pre- 

 fent ftate. To this end, he fpecifies, the coun- 

 tries he had travelled over ; the many botanic 

 gardens he had vifited ; the various excellent her" 

 laria that he had examined, in Sweden, Holland, 

 England, and France •, the names of his pupils 

 educated under him, and their various peregrina- 

 tions from all which he reaped great advantages, 

 as from thefe he received various new plants : 

 and, finally, he acknowledges the many liberal 

 communications of feeds and fpecimens, fent to 

 him from all parts of the world by the firft bota- 

 nifts of the time. 



As this work contains all the plants of the known 

 world which had come to Linn^us^s knowledge, 

 or rather infpe6tion which, at the publication of 

 thefe volumes, appear to have amounted to about 

 7,300 fpecies, all varieties excluded, the profefled 

 botanift has only to regret, that it could not have 

 been extended by the author himfelf, to a com- 

 pleat pinax, and hijlory of every plant therein de- 

 fcribed. 



In this year alfo Linnaeus publilhed Museum 

 Tessinianum, ^j/j^-r^///. ComitisC» G. Tessin, Regis 

 Regfilque Senaions, See, &c. colie5ium. Holm, 1753* 

 foL pp. 90. tab. 12. This is a defcription of the 

 cabinet of Linn^^us's firft patron and great friend 

 Count T ejffin^ at that time preceptor to the Prince 

 Royal, now King of Sweden, who had fpared no 

 cxpence in colleding a rich mufeum, principally 

 confifting of fubjeds in mineralogy, and particu- 

 cularly abounding in foffils of the figured or ex- 

 traneous kind. The work is in Swedijh and Latin 5 



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