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LINNAEUS IN I734 AND' 1735. 
the transactions, besides the name of the place where they had been 
found. The above regulations being thus uniformly observed, the pre- 
sident had nothing to do on the road but remind his companions of what 
they were to set down in the diary. 
At night they all met together, the president then dictated to the secre- 
tary the memoranda collected by each companion, in a regular turn from 
the geograph' f he steward; and if he happened to forget any remark, 
the companion to whose office that part of the science belonged, refreshed 
his memory. The president was quite surprised at the readiness and 
diligence with which his attendants discharged the duties of their re- 
spective offices. In the short space of a few weeks, they appeared to 
him as if they had been accustomed to it for whole years together. 
In this manner they travelled through all East and West Dalecarlia , 
the Alps , a large traCl of Norway , especially through the parishes of 
Binsoas Retwick, Orel, Orsa, Mora, Eljdalen, Seina, Idre, Fielten, Roras , 
Cranstrand, Lima, Malunos , lama , Floda, Gagneahl, and Fahlund. 
The transactions or operations of the society are printed on forty-eight 
written sheets, containing many important observations and discoveries; 
for instance, in the geographical part is a faithful description and repre- 
sentation of the Dalelren, the largest river of Dalecarlia , with all its arms 
and sources; also a geography of the Alpine mountains. In that part 
which treats of natural philosophy it is stated, that on the highest moun- 
tain called Slerol Sladet, the clouds which first appeared below, approached 
the travellers. In mineralogy, there exists a description of one hun- 
dred and twenty different curious sorts of minerals and fossils, most of 
which are to be found in the district of Rettwick. In the botanical part 
is a list of all the plants growing in the whole province, under the title 
of 
