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The colleftion consists of every thing possessed by the two Lin- 

 <* NyEi, relating to natural history or medicine. The library may con- 

 *' tain about 2500 volumes, or many more, if all the dissertations were 

 «« reckoned separ iteiy. The old Herbarium of Linnaeus contains all 

 *' the plants described in the Species Plantarim, except, perhaps, about 

 " five hundred species, [Fungi and alnKs excepted) and it has perhaps 

 " more than 500 undescribed. The herbariu a t f young Linn^us 

 *' is more splendid and on better paper. It contains most of the plants 

 " of his Supplementmn^ except what are in his father's Herbarium, and. 

 "has besides about 1500 very fine specimens from Commerson's 

 <« coUeftion, most of them new; besides vast colleflions from Dom- 

 *« BEY, La Mark, Pourret, Guan, Smeathman, Masson, &:c.. 

 «' and ab e all, a j rotligious quantity from Sir Joseph Banks, who 

 ** gave him duplicates of almost every one of Aublet's specimens, 

 *« as well as of his own West Indian plants, with a few of those col- 

 «' lefted in his own voyages round the world, of which last, however,, 

 «« he has not yet given many away to any body. . 



" Young LiNN^us also made ample colleftions from the gardens of. 



Holland^ France zxi& England; he made his coUeclon a duplicate one,. 

 " independent of his father's and separate from it, as I still keep it, and 

 *' have added many things to it colletled by myself in E7ig land, France, 

 *' Italy and the Alps. I am also enriching it daily by the kindness of/ 

 *' my friends, and have lately had a fine addition from the East Indies, 



« The insefts are not so numerous; but they consist of most of those 

 «« that are described by Linn.cus, and many new ones. The are 

 *' about thrice as many as are mentioned in Systema Naturce, and many 

 " of. them very valuable, as young Linnaeus had increased that part 



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