ORATIONS OF LINNAEUS. 
'I’m: First Edition — Tal om Merkieaerdigheten uti 
Insecterne. Stockholm, 1739, octavo. — This oration 
was made by Linnaaus in the Swedish language, 
when he resigned his office as President of the 
Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. 
The Second Edition — Translated into Dutch. — 
Leyden, 1741, in octavo. 
The Third Edition — Oratio de memorabilibus in 
Insectis; Latine vertit. Abrah. Bieck. Paris, 1743 
Inserted in the Amoenitat. Acad. vol. vi. 
The Fourth Edition — Reprinted in Swedish. 
Stockholm, 1 747, in octavo. 
The Fifth Edition — Stockholm, 1 752, in octavo, 
with the insects numbered as in Fauna Suecica. 
The Sixth Edition — Translated into German in the 
Universal Repository of Nature, Art, and Science. 
Leips. 1754, vol. ii. page three hundred et seq 
German. 
The Seventh Edition — Also in German, translated 
from the last Swedish edition, by C. H. Groening. 
Schwerin, 1784, octavo. 
