Bihang Till K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handlingar Volume 13, PT. 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...much better, but I cannot make up my mind to ask for them, although 1 will pledge my soul and honour that not a feather should suffer damage. I fear, moreover, that no small part of their contents is spoilt already, for who is there now to look after them and take care of such a thesaurus, and see that it does not fall into decay through moth and rusts1). ') The original, dated," 64, written from dictation but signed in Linn.-us' own band, is in the library of the Caroline Institute. The -ten years are counted from his last scientific yisit to the Queen's Museum in September 1764. 2) L. to Back, '-/," 59; --/, 60. L. to Clerck '/., % 59. 3) Icones Insectorum Rariorum, I. Holmise, 175 . II, 1764. 4) L. to BiCK, "/- 63. 5) L. to Back, -;, 63. Linnaeus now lost no time to have the neatly penned copies of his schedules ready for printing, and to add some references not introduced when the primitive MS. was closed in 1752. But only a few found place: Klein's Tentamen Methodi ostracologicae of 1753; Brown's Jamaica of 1756; GiNanni's Opere postume of 1755; Adanson, Senegal, 1757; Seba, Thesaurus, IIJ, 1758; Baster, Opuscula, 1761, --but, as one cannot fail to have remarked, generally the references given in the M. L. U. of 1764 are much fewer than those given in the S. X. ed. 10, of 1758. The printing was commenced early in 7642). The first sheet A, is that beginning with the page having only the words: Pars 1, Insecta exotica, and after the last species of the genus Julus p. 462, there follows a second title-page: Pars 11, Testacea. It seems that the printing had advanced up to that point and perhaps beyond it, when it became a matter af consideration what title should be given to the work. ...