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botanical specimens. He induced the Consistory in 
1758 to buy Patrick Browne’s Jamaica collection for 
600 copper dalers [^15], but meanwhile he had 
bought it through Peter Collinson for £% 8s., and 
when on its arrival at Uppsala he found it to consist 
of more than 1,000 rare plants, he “could only 
marvel that the English should let so excellent a 
collection of rarest American [West Indian] plants go 
out of their country in return for 100 platar ” [^15]. 
He was so engrossed with these plants, that, not avail¬ 
ing himself of the sum provided by the University, he 
added the plants to his own herbarium at his own 
expense, and devoted himself so eagerly to their 
study, that he remarked, “ I am forgetting friends, 
relations, house and fatherland.” 
There must also be mentioned a small collection 
of drugs wanted for the lectures on Materia medica, 
which were bought out of a small grant from the 
Consistory, with a hundred tin boxes for their 
preservation. An amanuensis was also provided; in 
the spring term of 1763 it was J. P. Falck, and in the 
succeeding autumn term, J. Elmgren, who filled the 
post. 
The establishment of this museum gave rise to a 
small university reform. When Linne reported that 
Prince Adolf Fredrik had given a splendid collection 
of all kinds of Indian animals, fishes, insects, etc., 
and for their cataloguing, he asked for the loan 
of certain books from the library to be returned in a 
fortnight, as it was impossible for him to carry bottles 
to the library. At first this request was refused, but 
Linne applied to the Chancellor, and in the end 
gained permission to borrow the volumes. But this 
permission did not please Anders Norrelius, the 
librarian, and in various ways he hindered the loan, 
till he was ordered by the Consistory to carry out the 
King’s order, when the librarian at last gave way. 
