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JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 
scripts, the property of DoCtor J. E. Smith, of London. Several 
auditors of Linnaeus obtained this manuscript for their use in their 
medical and ceconomical treatises and labours. Its contents, with 
regard to botany, have, however, been made public by Linnaeus 
himself in two works. 
One of these works became the first which appeared in print with 
the name of Linnaeus, and is an official document, in which he pre- 
sents an account of his journey. It is a catalogue and short description 
of the plants of Lapland , under the title of Florula Lapponica. Even in 
such a small work Linnaeus had already relinquished the system of 
Tournefort. Pie described the plants not by their flower or blos- 
som, but according to his own favourite plan, by the sex, the number 
of stamina, or dust-threads, and the pistilla or dust- ways, which he was 
obliged first to examine himself. From this small work, the beginning 
of the epoch of botanical reform, and the introdu&ion of the mo- 
dern sexual system is to be dated. But this first stone towards the 
raising of the new Colossus, was too little and too unimportant to de- 
serve particular notice; the more so, as it was concealed in a remote 
and distant country. Much more was required to be done in order 
to excite general attention, to make this new structure better known, 
and to render it the general pattern. 
The Royal Academy of Sciences received very favourably this 
first specimen of the exertions of the juvenile tourist. The two dif- 
ferent parts of the Flora of Lapland , were inserted in their transactions 
1732 and 1734; an( ^ to give Linn^us a token of their gratitude and 
esteem they elefted him one of their members. Some recent increase of 
knowledge derived from those travels, and the honour of being elected 
ademician, 
