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their own breaft. Several obfervations on thedlf- 

 eafes of children are interfperfed, and fome local ob- 

 fervations, which lofe their force in this country. 



This fubjed has been fo ably difcufled by feve- 

 ral mafterly pens in this kingdom, that we fliall 

 only obferve, refpefting the prefent trad, that Dr. 

 Lindberg allows more force, than fome of our own 

 writers, to thofe arguments which admit of dif- 

 eafes and temperaments being tranfmifTible from 

 nurfes to their fofter-children. 



43. HospiTA Insectorum Flora. J.G, ForsJkahL 

 1752. 



The author of this paper begins by giving a 

 general hiftory of all the material writers on Infedls, 

 and the method in which they have treated the 

 lubje(5t, whether in relation to the metamorphofes 

 and economy principally, in the manner of Swam- 

 merdam\ or by giving a detail of the /pedes at large 

 alfo, as Ray^ Reaumur^ and Be Geer^ have done. 

 He then does due honour to the Queen of Sweden^ 

 on account of the magnificent mufeum which her 

 majefty had conftrufled at the palace of Brottning- 

 holm^ which is very fuperb in Infe^fs^ Shells^ Corals^ 

 and Chryftals^ &c. He next exhibits his plan ; it 

 confifts in arranging all fuch infers as are natives 

 of Sweden^ each under the plant on which it is 

 found, or on which it feeds ; the references being 

 made to the Fauna^ and Flora Suecica of Linn^us. 

 It would be highly acceptable to thofe who culti- 

 vate this branch of natural hiftory, to fee this ar- 

 rangement augmented by the numerous difcoveries 



that 



