236 REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES 



i'^enice, Count Sagramoso, Seguier, Vandelli and Dr. Turra. 

 In Turkey, Moroac. M'Kenzie. " In America, Barthram, Clay- 

 ton, Miss CoLDF-N, Do6lor Garden, of South Carolina; Logan 

 Bartch at Surinam; and Muxis 'm New Grenada. lx\ Asia, ]. 

 Koenig at Tranquebar ; and Messrs. Rademacher and Nor-dgreen, 

 How much more would this list of one hundred fifty names be in- 

 creased, would and could we add to it those persons to whom Linnaeus 

 sent single letters from Sweden and other counti-ies, for the sake of 

 making enquiries, or for similar purposes. It is to be regretted, that 

 the correspondence of Linn.eus, which was solely carried on to pro- 

 mote natural history, has not yet been published, at least in a seleB. 

 coUeftion. That those letters would prove particularly interesting to 

 botanists is a fatl which precludes every doubt. Linn^^us carefully 

 preserved his letters, and they are aftually in possession of Dr. J. E. 

 Smith*. 



A Livonian, who travelled in Sweden in 1771, and visited Upsal on 

 purpose that he might see Linn^.us, gives the following account of 

 our luminary's situation at" that time, and likewise of his coUeftions: 



" Sir Charles Linnaeus received me with great complaisance, 

 ^4 He led a very bustling and active life; and I never saw him at lei- 

 *' sure ; even his walks had for their object discoveries in natural his- 

 " tory. His colleflion of shells was very numerous, and consisted of the 



• " I have long ago intimated this wish to Dr. Smith, and he flatters me with its.gratifi- 

 cation some day by the following answer which he kindly returned to my letter : *' The 

 •'letters of LinnjEUs," says Dr. Smith, "are about 3000. I projeft a publication of 

 «' some of the correspondence some day ; but it will require a careful revision before I give 



** them to the public. I would not imitate the publication of Haller's letters.'* 



From a Letter of Dr. Smith's to the 4uthor, 



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