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■« the colleclions at the sum of two thousand ducats. But while he endea- 
il voured to amuse me with his promises, he profited by the interval to 
u convey them out of the kingdom. I was obliged to apply to the King, to 
•** obtain an order for stopping them, but I applied too late. This circum- 
tc stance obliged me to reside at Stockholm for some months *. 
Those who wish for the best and most authentic information, not only 
about the remarkable circumstances which attended the sale of the Lin- 
an collections, but also respecting their contents and quality, will 
find it among the supplements to this biography, in an ample letter from 
Dr. J. E. Smith to the author. 
Linnaeus was the father of six children, two sons and four 
daughters. Of the eldest son, Charles Linnaeus, who succeeded 
his father in his professorship, we shall give a particular account in the 
course of this work. The youngest, whose name was John, died 
while an infant, Elisabeth Christina, the eldest Miss Linnaeus, 
married in 1761 one Bergencrantz, a captain of cavalry in the 
service of Sweden, and has been dead these many years. The fruit of 
her marriage was a daughter, born in 1764. The three other daugh- 
ters of LiNNiEus are the only surviving branches of that great man’s 
family. Misses Louisa and Sarah Christina, the two eldest, re- 
main in a state of celibacy with their mother at the villa of Ham- 
marly, one league from Upsal. And Miss Sophia, her youngest, has 
* 11 Jag hadde accorderat mede ...... som disponerade om Linneernas egendom, oin 
« eras Samlingar och Biblotheque, mot en summa stor 2000 ducater ; men under dat han 
« U ppeholt mig met loften, behagade han, lurendrega dem ur Riket. Jag var nosakad, at 
«< v -j n da mig till Konunger, och begara sequester men kom for sent. Da te har giort, at jag 
« most vinas .par raonander Stockholm . ’ 
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