AUTOBIOGRAPHIES 
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A copy of this down to 1771, was taken by Linne’s 
pupil, A. Murray; this is numbered as V. by Afzelius, and 
is now in the Uppsala University library (MS. X. 274 d.). 
In this is a genealogy palpably prepared by Linne, which is 
wanting in the original. 
Yet another copy, noted by Afzelius as IV. and coming 
down to some time in 1769, was made by Linne’s pupil, 
J. Lindvall, but has here and there between the lines, small 
corrections and additions in Linne’s own hand. This was 
delivered to Bishop Mennander in January, 1770, with the 
request that he would make a Latin translation to be sent 
to the French Academy, of which Linne had been elected 
a member. In 1799, it was sent by Mennander’s son to a 
Mr. Robert Gordon, a merchant or banker in Cadiz, to be 
published. Gordon died soon afterwards, and Dr. W. G. 
Maton bought the manuscript and included an English 
translation of it in his 1805 edition of Pulteney’s “ General 
View of the Writings of Linnaeus.” This manuscript now 
belongs to the Linnean Society of London; another copy 
down to 1764, with part of an English version, being in 
the library of the Academy of Science. 
5. Fragment of a life-description, clear copied by some 
other person, with an addition in Linne’s own hand. The 
contents are practically the same as the foregoing, though 
with a few errors here and there, unhappily stopping at 
1728. It was in the possession of the late Professor 
T. Tullberg. 
These Linnean manuscripts can be regarded as life- 
sketches, but there are, besides, small notices by himself, 
in some degree of biographic style. Usually, they are 
merely notes of important events in his life, authorship, 
teaching, etc. The following may be named: 
(a) “ Memorial concerning my small services,” sent in 
January, 1762, to Bishop Mennander to be delivered by 
him to the Secret Committee, with reference to a national 
payment to Linne; a copy is in the possession of the 
Linnean Society, presented by Baron Oscar Dickson. 
( b) “ Merit list, concerning those who were in 1767 on 
the Academic list ”; the original seems lost, but a transcript 
is possessed by the Academy of Science. 
(c) A similar list for the Academy of Science, the 
original being in the library of Gothenburg. 
( d ) Caroli Linnsei Vita, translated by Professor C. 
Aurivillius, and intended for the French Academy. 
A copy, sent in 1776, was used by Condorcet for his 
“ Eloge ” in 1778. 
