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of Sweden had their feparate mufeums, the one at 
Abrickfdahl, and the other at Drottningholm ; the ar- 
ranging and defcrlbing of both thefe was committed to 
his care. The museum of the Royal Academy at Upfal 
had likewife been augmented by a rich donation from 
the king, whilft he was hereditary prince, in 1746 : by 
another from Count Gollenberg in 1745 ; and by a third 
from Mr. Grill, an opulent citizen at Stockholm ; and 
by the Chinefe curiofities of Lagerftroem at Gottenburg. 
Within the fpace of ten years, from 1740 to 1750, 
he publiftied his Flora Suecica, Fauna Suecica, Flora 
2cylanica, and Hortus Upfalenfis and Materia Medica,' 
befides twenty-five original treatifes in the feparate annals 
of his country. 
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From almoft all the learned focieties in Europe he 
received academical honours, and four of the nobles of 
his own country gave a high and honourable tribute to 
his merits, by caufing a gold medal to be ftruft in his 
remembrance. On one fide of the medal was the creft 
of Linnxus, with this infeription ; 
Carol. Lxnn^us.M. D. Bot. Prof. Ups. Aitat. xxxix. 
On the other fide were thefe words ; 
Carolo Gustavo Tessin et imortalitati 
effioiem caroli linn^i el. ekeblad, andr. 
hoepken, n. palmstierna, et car. harleman. 
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