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6 1, Chinensia Lagerstromiana. y. L. Odhelius. 



i754. 



At the time that Linn^us's great patron. Count 

 TeffiHy was chancellor to the King, and prefident 

 of the Royal Academy of Sciences, he obtained, by 

 the concurrence alfo of M, Lagerfirom^ then coun- 

 feilor of the chamber of commerce, and dire6i:or 

 of the Swedip Eaft India company, an order, that 

 eachfiiip fhouid be provided, at the expence of the 

 Connpany, with a naturalift wholly devoted to his 

 proper purfuirs. To this infiiitution we owe the 

 difcoveries made by Ter^flrom, ^oren^ and OJheck i 

 and in confequence Mo Lagerftrom^ who was him- 

 felf a man of letters, and a friend to fcience, pro. 

 cured, at his own expence, a great number of 

 natural curioiities from China and the Eafi Indies^ 

 \¥hich he prefented to the mufeum of the univer- 

 fity at Upfd, Among thefe particularly was a 

 collection of the medicinal plants preferved in the 

 apothecaries (hops in China j alio a Chinefe herbal, 

 in 36 volumes in Svo, of which two confift en- 

 tirely of figures. 



The tradl before us is a fcientific defcription of 

 more than 50 fubjefts of natural hiftory, chiefly 

 birds and fifhes, colledled from China by M. La- 

 gerftrom. It is ftill of value, as being referred to 

 from the Syflem of our author. 



62. Centuria Plantarum. u^. Ti.JuJlemus, 1755. 



63. Centuria II. Plantarum. jE. "Tomer, 1756. 



Thefe trads contain the defcriptions of very 

 rare, or heretofore ug^defcribed plants, fent to 



LiNNiEUS 



