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44 had been sent to you from England , and that you had decorated your 
“ walls with them at Hamm ar by." 
“ Now to the most important point ! The Princess has lately began a 
44 work, and I am at a loss to guess whether it does greater honour to 
“ her scientific zeal, or to your System of Nature. She causes all 
44 your Species Plantarum , together with the parts of fructification of the 
4( plants, to be engraved in a most capital and most sumptuous style. 
44 Each plate costs four Louis d’ors, and represents one plant only, with 
44 its pistilla and seminal vessels represented separately, and the number 
44 of the plates will amount to 10,000. M. Gauther Dagoti, an ex. 
44 cellent engraver, is very recently arrived here from Paris. The 
44 species of the Veronica are already finished, and executed beautifully; 
44 for the whole is done under the immediate inspeOion of the Princess. 
44 She is not only a great botanist, but there are also but few who equal her 
“ in the art of drawing. She examines every plate with the most scrupu- 
“ lous attention, and corre&s the slightest blemish or fault. She after- 
44 wards paints the plants in the most lively colours, d his work must, of 
“ course, become the most correft and splendid which ever graced the 
“ annals of botany, and will fully answer its title of leones Omnium 
44 Speciermn Plantarum C. Linn .si. 
“ The Princess intends likewise to beautify with similar engravings 
44 your system ol the animal reign. A present has been made to her of 
44 the description of the two Royal Swedish Museums, given by you, 
44 bound in a sumptuous manner, bearing on the outside the King s and 
j £ t ^ e Queens name, and the arms of Sweden. Her Highness sends you 
44 one of the plates representing a Veronica by way of specimen. She 
44 will be glad if it meets your approbation.” 
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