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Catalogue.” Presumably this “ Catalogue ” was the 
“ Florula lapponica” issued in the Society’s “ Acta ” 
for 1732, practically the earliest work of Linnaeus to be 
printed, as well as the first in his Sexual System. This 
report embraced his account of the black ironsand in 
all the rivers, the pearl-fishery at Purkijaur, twenty- 
three new willows, a grass resistant to the greatest cold, 
forage plants (which coloured butter deep yellow), 
the Lapps’ love-potions, on the moxa, zoological 
details, ten kinds of bread used when grain fails in 
Norrland and Norway, and many similar observations. 
Later, on the 10th February, 1733, were also pre¬ 
sented reports on the fatality amongst the cattle in 
Torne, on the Aconitum in Medelpad which is eaten 
by the inhabitants, and on a certain moss in the 
forests. The last was Polytrickum commune , which 
Linnaeus’s companion stripped from the ground it 
covered and used as bed and coverlet, found to be 
most comfortable. Another proof of the value set on 
the Lapland journey was that when Professor Roberg 
was visited, the latter hastened to write a long nar¬ 
ration on the journey from Linnaeus’s dictation. 
Accounts of this expedition reached foreign 
parts; already after the departure from Uppsala a 
Hamburg journal, “ Niedersachische Nachrichten,” 
noticed this event, and in the same paper, after his 
return, appeared a brief statement of it, and the news 
that the “ Flora lapponica ” and “ Lachesis lap- 
ponica ” were in preparation. Also, a Nuremberg 
journal published a report from London that J. J. 
Dillenius had communicated the news to C. J. Trew, 
himself learning it from Anders Celsius, whom he 
had met in London; further, Celsius himself sent a 
letter to Trew, when he had reached Berlin. To the 
same effect a Copenhagen print, “ Nya Tidender om 
laerde og curieuse Sager ” [News about learned and 
interesting matters] alluded to the same subject, but 
only in October, 1734, two years after the conclusion 
of the journey, a striking commentary of the slow 
