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1 748 our prefident undertook with great dili^ 
gence not only to make experiments himfelf, 
but to excite his difciples, and auditors to do the 
fame ; of which number i was one. Thus at 
laft many experiments were made, and re- 
peated, efpecially by D. D. Hagftrom, Mag, 
E. G. Liidbeck, E. Ekelund, J. G. Wahlbom, 
L. Montin, F. Oldbers, J. C. Forfkahl, A. 
Fornander ; not to mention others, who ftrove, 
as it were, to out-do one another in finding the 
plants, which were fuitable to different animals^ 
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The difficulty however of examining all the 
Swedifh plants, and getting animals proper for 
experiments, which ought all to be repeated, 
has hindered us from being able to give a 
compleat work on this fubjecft. But the great- 
eft part, and the moft common vegetables of 
Sweden bfeing now determined by us * what is 
wanting may be fupplied from time to time. 
We hinted that animals proper for experiments, 
which ought to be taken from among cows, 
goats , Sheeps horfes , and fwine , are difficult to be 
found, for thefe reafons * firft, becaufe fome 
plants are eaten by them in the fpring, which 
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