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university of Upsal^ with a considerable collection of curious animals, 

 fishes and inserts ; farther by Nicholas Grill, a merchant at Stocks 

 HOLM, who bequeathed to the same university a valuable colleftion of 

 natural treasures, the produce of North America; especially some rare 

 serpents which had been collefted at Surinam. These presents were in 

 course of time considerably increased by the Chinese curiosities of 

 Lager STRO EM at Gottenburgh, and by several other gifts. To do 

 honour to the donors, and to enlarge the knowledge of natural history, 

 LiNNvEus described these sundry colleftions *. In a short space of 

 time the number of presents became so very great, as to induce the 

 Swedish government, upon some representations made by Linn^us, 

 to order a separate building to be raised in the year 1748, for the pur- 

 pose of preserving them. 



Li nnjE us now divided his diligence into the occupations for his. 

 pupils, for his country, and for the learned world at large. We will 

 compress the sphere of his exploits to the year 1750, to see what he did 

 to advance the above mentioned purposes. 



He was not, nor did he wish to be such an universalist as Haller ; 

 and nature remained his sole study. His application was entirely be- 

 stowed upon her productions. He gave leftures on botany, natural 

 history, the medicinal virtues of plants, the Materia Mcdica, and on the 

 dia^tetic and knowledge of diseases. His delivery was a pattern for a 

 professor in point of energy, instruftion and entertainment. " Science,'' 

 said B^cK, " streamed with peculiar pleasantness from his lips. He 



* Amphibia Gyllenbokgiana, Jul. iS, 1745. Museum Adolpho-Fredericanum, 

 May 31, 1746. Surinamensia, Grilliana, Jul. 18, 1748. Chinensia, Lagerstroemiana, 

 i-j^^.. — See Amoenhates Academicce. Vol. i. ii. iv. 



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