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times ! That he did not accept of it is ceri 

 tain, having, after the moft perfedl acknowledge 

 ments of the lingular honour done him, returned 

 for anfv/er, that, if he had any merits, they were 

 ^- due to his own country." 



In the year 1755, the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 at Stockholm honoured our profefibr with one of 

 the firft premiums, agreeably to the will of Count 

 Spcirre \ who had decreed two gold medals, of ten 

 ducats valup each, to be annually given by the 

 academy, to the authors of fuch papers, in the 

 preceding year's Stockhohn A6ls, as (hould be ad- 

 judged moft ufefui in promoting agriculture par- 

 ticularly, and all branches of rural geconomy, 

 This medal bore on one fide, the arms of the County 

 with this mollO'^ Sup erfte 5 in Scientiis amor Frede- 

 RiciSpARi.}:— LiNN/Eus obtained it inconfequencc 

 of a paper de Plantis^ oucs Alpium Sue cic arum in-' 

 digen^^ magno rei (economics et medico emolumenta 

 fieri pojfint^ and the ultimate intention was to re- 

 commend thcfe plants, as adapted to culture in 

 Lapland, This paper was Jnferted in the; Stockholm 

 A&s for 1754. Vol. XV. 



LiNN^us alfo obtained tht premium centum au-? 

 reorum^ propofcd by the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences at Peterjhurgh^ for the beft paper written 

 to ejiablijh, or difprove^ by new arguments, the doc- 

 trine of the fexes of plants. On this occafion the 

 profeffor wrote his Disqujsitio de quafiione ah Acad. 

 Imper, Scient. Petrop. in annum 1759 pro pr^mia 

 fropofita: Sexum Plantap.um arguraentis et experi- 

 mentis novis^ prMer adhuc jam cognita^ vel cqrrohorare 

 vel impugnare^ pramijfa e^cpoptom hifiorica et phyfica 



omnium 



