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DOCUMENT 103,
BENZELIUS TO SWEDENBORG .*
me.
To Assessor EM. SWEDENBORG.
Most honoured and dear brother,
**** I rejoice at the safe arrival of Brother
Jesper52 and his good companions at Stockholm, and I
hope to see them here, which would be a great pleasure to
I will write to Dr. Sloane 93 in London, as soon as I
obtain an observation on the state of the barometer in the
mines at Sahlberg, whither young Celsius 17 will travel to-day
for this purpose. Dr. Martint has left for Roslags-skieren
in order to make there his ichthyological observations. I thank
you for the promised paper, which will be an ornament in
the Acta Literaria . I remain, most honoured and dear brother,
Your most faithful servant and brother,
E. BENZELIUS.
Upsal, August 25, 1724.
* From the “ Bergius Collection," in the Academy of Sciences at Stock
holm, Vol. XIV, p. 289.
+ Dr. Per Martin, Assessor in the Royal Medical College and adjunct
in the Medical Faculty at Upsal ; he was married to a daughter of Prof.
Olof Rudbeck the younger.48
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