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142 The Floral King.
that I have never seen anything similar. I showed
it to Herr Adjunctus Melander and Magister Docens
Bergman, who both viewed it with the same astonish-
ment. The ice figures, which show themselves on
the windows, are flat and filled up between the
branches with ice. There have been those who have
thought that this comes from vegetable exhalations,
perhaps, after they have passed through the bodies
of animals. It is noteworthy that the water which
was in the water-jug was also frozen, but as no
tea-plant seeds had been soaked in it, it had frozen
in the regular way, according to the laws of crystali-
zation ad angulos, as salts are crystalized, for which
reason Newton says that water is a liquid salt.
“‘ Please excuse my troubling you with a thing
which I do not know myself whether it is important
or not, for this is not my business.
“C. LINNAEUS.”
ExTRACT oF A LETTER FROM PROFESSOR LINNAUS,
TO THE SECRETARY, HERR ELOIUS.
“You will call to mind, sir, how often observations
have been sent in from the country to the Royal
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