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The Floral King. 185
early grave on the journeys of scientific research,
which, inspired by him, they had undertaken.
It naturally became the duty of Linnzus to
systematically arrange the collections of all these,
and to edit for publication the manuscripts of those
defunct, and this, added to his manifold duties as
professor and corresponding member of eighteen
learned societies, greatly increased his labours.
However he continued to publish many great works
of his own in rapid succession, and of one amongst
them, the Fauna Suecicia, he says ‘that he had
worked on it for fifteen years.” Several of his first
works required new, revised, and enlarged editions,
and were from time to time greatly increased in
volume; thus he instances having worked the whole
of the year 1758 on the tenth edition of his Systema
Nature, and still he revised two more new and
enlarged editions of this voluminous work before his
death. Upon several occasions he was by the
government sent to various provinces to perform
scientific researches, and to report upon these. At
one time he attempted by artificial means to produce
pearls in mussels, at another period he tried to
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