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C. Linné
[address] Kongl. / Wettenskaps Academien / Stockholm frijbr.
1. Sv. arb., I, 424-425.
2. Br. o. skr., I:2, 330-331.
[1] Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, the secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
[2] The letter from Wargentin has not come down to us.
[3] Linnaeuss letters to Wargentin and Abraham Bäck of 1 January 1771.
[4] Linnaeus refers to an observation made by Adolf Modeer, an observation he considered to be of less value and which was not even mentioned in the records of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
[5] Linnaeus thanks for a new issue of Philosophical transactions of 1770. He presumably refers to A letter from Philip Carteret, esquire, captain of the swallow sloop, to Matthew Maty, M.D. sec. R.S. on the inhabitants of the coast of Patagonia, 20-26.
[6] According to a treatise by Adlermark, Om vise-boets byggnad och tilkomst, 208-229, Linnaeus probably had heard of Schibachs Melittotheologia, his Physikalische Untersuchung der bisher unbekannten aber nachher entdeckten Erzeugung der Bienenmutter and his Physikalische Untersuchung woher der Drohnenweisel entstehe.
[7] Philip Miller resigned as the gardener of the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1770 after years of disputes with the Garden committee and others. He was succeeded by William Forsyth: see Le Rougetel, The Chelsea gardener, 160, 162, 164-165.