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very early have made a great proficiency, fmce we 

 find that he was not lefs fuccefsful herein, than ia 

 that of plants, having given them an arrangement, 

 and eftablilhed fuch charaders of diftindion, as 

 have been univerfally followed by fucceeding ento- 

 mologifts. 



The firft part of his academical education, Lin^ 

 naus received under profeflbr Stoh^eus^ at Lund^ in 

 Scania^ who favoured his inclinations to the ftudy 

 of natural hiftory. After a refidence of about a 

 year, he removed in 1728 to Upfd, Here he foon 

 contradled a clofe friendfhip with Artediy a native 

 of the province of Angermannia^ who had already 

 been four years a ftudent in that univerfity, and, 

 like himfelf, had a ftrong bent to the ftudy of na- 

 tural hiftory in general, but particularly to Ich^ 

 thyology. He was moreover well Ikilled in chemiftry^ 

 and not unacquainted with botany, having been the 

 inventor of that diftindtion in umbelliferous plants^ 

 arifing from the differences of the involucrum^ 

 Emulation is the foul of improvement, and, heigh- 

 tened as it was in this inftance by friendfhip^ 

 proved a moft powerful incentive. Thefe young 

 men profecuted their ftudics together with uncom* 

 mon vigor, mutually com.municating their obferva- 

 tions, and laying their plans, fo as to aflift each 

 other in every branch of natural hiftory and 

 phyfic. 



Soon after his refidence at Upfd^ our author 

 was alfo happy enough to obtain the favour of 

 feveral gentlemen of eftablifhed charader in litera- 

 ture. He was in a particular manner encouraged 

 in the purfuit of his ftudies by the patronage cf 



