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REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES 
teachers of nature in all parts of the world, through him the love of her 
productions animated the great, and penetrated even to the throne of 
his country. Count Tessin, his elevated patron, loved him and his 
science, especially the knowledge of the mineral reign. He had col- 
lected a considerable cabinet of minerals the description and arrange- 
ment of which he left to the care of Linn/eus. This description ap- 
peared in 1753 in Latin and Swedish*, and to the honour of the 
author, Count Tessin prefixed himself a preface to the work, dedi- 
cated it to Linnaeus, and caused a copper-plate to be put in front of 
it, representing the medal which he ordered to be struck in honour of 
our luminary. 
Under Linnaeus the first royal museums were established in Sweden, 
We have already mentioned the present which King Frederick 
Adolphus made to the academy of Upsal , while he was prince 
royal. The love of nature was one of the favourite passions of that 
prince. In a short time a great number of curiosities of the animal 
reign, especially foreign birds, amphibies, fishes, and insefts were col- 
lected, and a cabinet built in the castle at Ulrichsdale, at the distance of 
half a league from Stockholm. Linnaeus had the honour to arrange 
it, and to publish a description of its contents in the year 1754+. 
The laudable example of this prince was followed by his excellent 
and accomplished Queen Louisa Ulrica, sister to Frederick the 
Great. She was, in general, the enthroned Minerva of the Swe- 
dish Sciences. + She also inspired the late king with the love of nature. 
* Museum Tessinianum, Holm. 1753, folio. 
+ Museum Regis Adolphi Frederic!, Holm. 1754, fol. 135, tab. 33. 
J Doctor Rosen in a letter to Haller, written in 1752, thus expresses himself : “ Regina 
“ nostra clementi ssima, mirabili flagrat amore Historic Naturalis, et ex Hollandia imprimis 
“ multum in eo studio apparatum sibi coemit.’’ 
She 
