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THROUGH SWEDEN. ° 131
Baron Renterholm; famous on account of the influence he pof-
feffed in the direction of public affairs during the regency. I
know not that he has cultivated any branch of literature.
Mr. Rofenbald, a devotee, and thought to be one of the illu-
minati.
Mr. Silverftolpe. See Swedifh academy.
Mr. Ekel: the beft chemift in Sweden,
In this academy we alfo find the names of Mr. Zetzel, Lager-
heim, Ofverbom, Schultzenheim, and Rofenhane.
Befides the literary academies, of which I have given an ac-
count in the foregoing pages, there are fome others in Sweden, viz.
1. The royal academy of {ciences at Upfala, whofe tranfactions
are written in Latin. :
2. The royal fociety for the cultivation of fciences and belles-
lettres at Gothenburg, which has publifhed fome memoirs.
3. The royal phyfiographical fociety, which was inftituted at
Lund in 1776, and incorporated by the king in 1778. The pa-
pers, which this fociety has given to the world, relate only to the
natural hiftory, chemiftry, and agriculture of the province of Skane
or Scania. !
4. The fociety of belles-lettres, natural hiftory, and rural oeco-
nomy at Carlftadt.
5. The academy of belles-lettres at Abo.
6. The Finlandifh fociety for rural ceconomy.
7. The patriotic and agricultural fociety of Stockholm.
8. The academy for painting and fculpture at Stockholm.
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