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taking poffeffion, there were hardly fifty exotic plants t® 
be found in it. By the bounty of his fovereign, how- 
ever, and by the correfpondence he had eftabliflied with 
the moft learned naturalifts in Europe, the buildings 
were repaired, the garden replenilhed with the rarell 
and moft valuable exotics, and at laft it equalled in cele- 
brity any repofltory of this nature which the world could 
produce. Six years afterwards, he publiflied a defcrip- 
tion of it, containing an enumeration of the foreign 
plants he had procured and enriched it with, amounting 
to eleven hundred. His lecture-room now became 
crouded with ftudents from almoft every country of Eu- 
lope, and it is faid that at one time he numbered fifteen 
hundred. Thefe he occallonally took in clufters into the 
different diftriiftsof the country for the purpofe of mak- 
ing collections, and when he at any time found what he 
thought worthy of demonftration, his pupils gathered 
round him at the found of a horn or trumpet. 
His lectures comprised, befides botany and natural 
hiftory, the medicinal ufes of plants, the Materia Medica, 
and the knowledge of difeafes. The conflux of ftudents 
which thefe brought into the univerfity, and the fame of 
his fyftem of nature, a fixth edition of which was pub- 
lifhed at Stockholm, in 1748, had now exhibited him to 
the government of his country as its greatest ornament 
and benefactor. Prefents of whatever was rare and 
valuable in every department of nature, from all parts of 
the globe, poured in upon him. The King and Queer. 
