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REMARKABLE HISTORY 



OF THE 



SALE OF THE LINN^AN COLLECTIONS, 



fROM A LETTER OF JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M. D. F. R. S. PRESIDENT OF THE 

 LINN^AN SOCIETY OF LONDON^ AND PROPRIETOR OF THE LINN^EAN COL- 

 LECTIONS, TO THE AUTHOR. 



*' London, November 21, 1791. 

 "In the first place I shall give you, Sir, an historical account of the 

 *' sale of the Linn AN colle6lions with as much accuracy as I can. 



" On the death of the younger LiNNiEus, in the autumn of 1783, 

 " his Majesty th^ King of Sweden was, I believe, in France*. The 



* The late King of Snjoeden left Stockholm in the month of September, 1783, and travelled 

 by the title of Count of Haga, through Germany to Italy, went to Florence, Pisa, and 

 Rome, and left the latter place April 19, 1784, to go to Paris, where he remained till the 

 19th of July following, after w hich he returned with the utmoit dispatch to Stockhelm., whicli 

 he reached in the beginning of August. 



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