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scripts, the property of Doftor J. E. Smith, of London. Several 

 auditors of Linnaeus obtained this manuscript for their use in their 

 medical and oeconomical treatises and labours. Its contents, with 

 regard to botany, have, however, been made public by Linn^us 

 himself in two works. 



One of these works became the first which appeared in print with 

 the name of Linnaeus, and is an official document, in which he pre- 

 sents an account of his journey. It is a catalogue and short description 

 of the plants of Lapland, under the title of Florida Lapponica. Even in 

 such a small work Linn^us had already relinquished the system of 

 TouRNEFORT. Hc described the plants not by their flower or blos- 

 som, but according to his own favourite plan, by the sex, the number 

 of stamina, or dust-threads, and the pistilla or dust ways, which he was 

 obliged first to examine himself. From this small work, the beginning 

 of the epoch of botanical reform, and the introdu&ion of the mo- 

 dern sexual system is to be dated. But this first stone toM'ards the 

 raising of the new Colossus, was too little and too unimportant to de- 

 serve particular notice; the more so, as it was concealed in a remote 

 and distant country. Much more was required to be done in order 

 to excite general attention, to make this new strufture better known, 

 and to render it the general pattern. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences received very favourably this 

 first specimen of the exertions of the juvenile tourist. The two dif- 

 ferent parts of the Flora of Lapland, were inserted in their transactions 

 1732 and 1734; and to give Linn^us a token of their gratitude and 

 esteem they elefted him one of their members. Some recent increase of 

 knowledge derived from those travels, and the honour of being elefted 



academician, 



