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THIS is the first part of the youthful writings of Linnæus, collected by the late Dr. Ewald Ährling, and published, under a State grant, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. The work as a whole is to be divided into two series of several parts each, the first series including a record of the life of Linnæ us up to the year 1734, with botanical addenda. The second will contain the author's account of his journeys in Lapland (1732), hitherto printed only in English; in Dalabergslagen (1733); in Dalecarlia (1734); and notes on his sojourn abroad (1735). In the first series are the following purely botanical works:—“Hortus Uplandicus,” after Tournefort's system, from the original in the possession of the Linnean Society; “Hortus Uplandicus,” after Tournefort's system, with an addendum, and a new division of Umbellatæ (1730), from the original in the Leufsta Library; “Hortus Uplandicus,” after the author's method the sexual system (1731), original in possession of the Rev. J. Johansson, at Ifvetofta; and “Adonis Uplandicus,” after the sexual system (1731), original in the Leufsta Library.

Carl von Linné's ungdomsskrifter.

Samlade af Ewald Ährling., och efter hans död med statsunderstöd utgifvna, af K. Vetenskaps-Akademien. Första serien, första häftet. (Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner. 1888.)