i66 LINN^US PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 



illustrating their medical and oecononiical properties, the place of their 

 growth, and their Swedish and provincial denominations. GMtLiN, 

 in a letter to Haller said, he was very much pleased with that work, 

 which was a fresh proof of the astonishing diligence of Linn-«us*. 

 This first edition contained a description of 1140 plants, and in the 

 second, their number was augmented to 1296. 



A twelvemonth after the publication of this Flora, followed a de- 

 scription of the Swedish animals, birds, amphibies, fishes, insects and 

 w^ormst; a work which he had already began to co;k6l, wiiile a student 

 at Upsal in the year 1730. There had never appeared so general and 

 complete a zoology of any country. The first edition contained 1350 

 articles. By his own discoveries and the observations of his pupils, 

 this number was increased, in a second edition, fifteen years after, ta 

 2266. This last edition presented the following state and proportion of 

 the animal reign in Sweden: 1691 species of insefcts, 198 of worms, 

 195 of birds, 77 of fishes, 53 of sucking animals, and 25 of amphibies. 

 Entire and absolute perfeftion cannot possibly be expected in a work of 

 this description. B.cck. justly observed, that something is still left to 

 be added to it by the diligence of posterity ; but that at any rate the 

 honour belongs in preference to him who first paved the way to such 

 perfeftion. 



The beginning of the academical career of Linn.eus, so celebrated 

 for writings, travels and reforms, so replete with patriotic and scientific 

 activity, did not remain unrewarded. His merits were now honoured 



* Flora 'L\'SViJti placet. Est enim stupendis ejus diligent'ne novum argumenium. Epist. ad 

 Haller. Vol. ii, p. 250. Haller. however did not like the work. 



+ Fauna Suecica, sistens animalia Suecicas regni, &-c. Holm, 1746. 



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