SALE OF THE LINN JEAN COLLECTION. 
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<£ The colle&ion consists of every thing possessed by the two Lin- 
u n/ei, relating to natural history or medicine. The library may con- 
14 tain about 2500 volumes, or many more, if all the dissertations were 
££ reckoned separately. The old Herbarium of Linnaeus contains all 
££ the plants described in the Species Plant arum, except, perhaps, about 
« five hundred species, ( Fungi and Palma: excepted) and it has perhaps 
« more than 500 undescribed. The herbarium of young Linn/eus 
« is more splendid and on better paper. It contains most of the plants 
« of his Supplementum , except what are in his father’s Herbarium, and 
“has besides about 1500 very fine specimens from Commerson’s 
« colleft.ion, most of them new ; besides vast cohesions from Dom- 
*< bey, La Mark, Pourret, Guan, Smeathman, Masson, See . 
££ and above all, a prodigious quantity from Sir Joseph Banks, who 
“ gave him duplicates of almost every one of Aub let’s specimens, 
,£ as well as of his own West Indian plants, with a few of those col- 
ts leftea 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 collections from the gardens of 
£t Holland , France and England ; he made his collefton a duplicate one, 
££ independent of his father’s and separate from it, as I still keep it, and 
‘ £ have added many things to it collected by myself in England, 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 insettsare not so numerous; but they consist of most of those 
“ that are described by Lin n^eus, and many new ones. The shells are 
« about thrice as many as are mentioned in Systema Natures , and many 
« of them very valuable, as young Linnaeus had increased that part 
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