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She had a cabinet of shells, insefts and coral colleded at her own 

 expence in her palace at Drottningholm, the slow increase of which 

 rendered its treasures the more valuable. The oriental colleclions of 

 the unfortunate Hasselquist were preserved in the same place. Lin- 

 N^us also described this museum*, but not without taking the greatest 

 pains. There was no curiosity in the kingdom which was not shown 

 him, and he resembled Aristotle before whom Alexander the 

 Great ordered a great number of curious animals to be brought, that 

 he might describe them ; but still greater than Aristotle in this science, 

 LiNN^us profited better by the opportunity afforded him. 



The two royal palaces of Ulrichsdak and Drottningholm still contain 

 to this day the monuments of his labours and arrangements. The late 

 King Gustavus III. left those treasures of nature, which will ever 

 shine as an ornament in those edifices, in the same order as LinNjEUS 

 had described them according to his own system. 



Linn yE us chose the academical recess as the time for arranging the . 

 royal cabinets. There are two vacations eveiy year at the University 

 of Upsal, the summer vacation lasts three months, and the winter va- 

 cation six weeks. On those days of leisure, he used to go to Ulrich- 

 dale and DroUningholm, situate at the distance of about eight Swedish 

 miles from UpsaL But some fell disorder threatened to prevent Lin- 

 naeus from repairing thither, had not he fortunately discovered an 

 efficacious remedy against it. In the summer of 1750, he was attacked 

 with the gout. His fits were so violent as to deprive him of sleep for 

 seven days and seven nights, nor could he ever keep his feet quiet for 

 an hour together. The gouty matter circulated from one foot into the 



* Museum Ludovicse Ulrica Reginse, Holm, 1764-. 



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