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A 



BRIEF ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



AMCENITATES ACADEMICS. 



THE colleflion known under this title con- 

 fifts of feven volumes in 8vo, and contains 150 

 thefes. It is fuppofed the firft volume was not 

 originally colle6led by Linn^us himfeif; but 

 he at leaft reprinted it very early, and, that 

 he might not be defrauded of the advantage 

 of thefe publications, became the editor of all 

 the fucceeding volumes. Something has been 

 faid relating to this collection in the courfe of 

 thefe memoirs; to which we have only to add, 

 that we beg the reader to regard the following 

 pages, as little more than an enlarged table 

 of contents, intended only to excire a due at- 

 tention to this part of Linn^eus's works, which 

 the compiler prefumes to be lefs known than it 

 defer ves ^ and at the fame time to entreat him to 

 confider, that it is impoffible, by mxans of any 

 abridgment, to give an adequate idea of that 

 merit, and excellent arrangement of the fubjeCts 

 in thefe volumes, which cannot but render them 

 an agreeable and ufeful mifcellany, and ornament 

 to the library of every naturalift, phiiofopher, and 

 phyfician. 



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