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$mnium Plants partium^ qu^ aliquid ad f^cundationem: 

 et perfe^ionem feminis, et fru5fus conferre credun- 

 tur \ ah eadem Academia die 6 Sept, J 7 60, in con- 

 ventu publico pr^mio ornata, Petrop, 1760, 4% 

 pp. 32. 



Apart from all foregoing arguments, fafbs, and 

 experiments, brought in fupport of this queftion, 

 the profeffor has in this little trad fufficiently 

 proved, by a feries of new fadis, that the duft of 

 the Anthera^ analogically called the male parts, is 

 abfolutely necelTary to be fhed on the fligma or 

 female part, in order to render the feed fertile. 

 His theory of vegetation, prefixed to this paper, 

 is explained more at large in the Prolepjis Planta* 

 rum^ printed in the 6th volume of the Ammitates. 



It was, if poffible, an additional glory to Lijj- 

 Ni^:us to have merited this premium from thtPeterf-- 

 lur^h academy inafmuch as a profeffor of that 

 fociety, a few years before, had with more thaa 

 common zeal, although with a futility lil<:e that 

 of the other antagonifts of our author, endeavoured 

 to overturn the whole Linn^ean fyftem of botany, 

 by attempting to fhew that the do6lrine of the 

 fexes of plants, had no foundation in nature, and 

 was unfupported by fa6ls an4 experiments. 



The great charader of Linn^us, and that of 

 his colleagues, particularly of Rofen^ in the 

 medical departments, and their united endea- 

 vours, had very confiderably raifed the credit of 

 the univerfity of UpfaU as we have before ob- 

 ferved. It is certain, that the number of ftu- 

 dents are, at this time, nearly double what they 

 are faid to have been in accounts writtei> 30 and 



40 years 



