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Glaus Rudbeck, the father, Doctor and ProfefTor of phyficin the univerfityof Upfal,born at Wefteros in 1630, died at Upfal the 7th September 1702. His funeral ora-tion was read by John Efberg, ProfefTor of theology, and printed in 1703, in /|to. Itis to be feen in Chri/l. Netteibladt. Memoria virorum in Suecia cntdiiiffmorum redivivu&enii~decas, IV. Roftock, 1731, in 8vo., p. 161—208. Father Niceron has made ufeof it in giving the life of our Rudbeck, Memoircs , book xxxi, 133. and followingpages. Being a foreigner, Father Niceron has committed fotne errors, which requirerectification.

Fifty-one years after the death of Rudbeck, a fmall medal was (truck in honor ofhim, on one fide of which was a profile of that learned man, encircled with this inferip-tion : Olaus Rudbeck Pater . Prof. Upfal.; and on the other, the conftellation of theleffer beai;, with thefe words : Tot Fulgent Lumina in Uno. On the exergue is written,VIVO DECR. HON ORES REDD 1 TI A 0 MDCCLIII. AB. EXITV. LI.

This article, relating to one of the rarefl works that has appeared in Sweden , andde-figned for the library of the late Mr. Clement , under the head of

RUDBECK, (Olaus, ) the father,

was compofed by Mr. Charles Guftavus de Varmholtz , Aulic Counfellor of His Majeltythe King of Sweden, the greateft bibliographer that ever was in Sweden ;■ he died the28th March 1785. It has neVer till now appeared in print; and the underfigned, whois in poffeffion of the original memoir, has the honour to prefen'c this copy to Meffrs.

B.and F.. on their travels in the North, knowing them to be-curious re^

fpeCting rare editions. Stockholm , 18th June 179 r.

(Signed.) Charles Gjcerwell, librarian to His Majefty.

N.B. It is plain that the article of Mr. de Bure, in his Bibliography, No. 5578, isnot correct, any more than that of Cailleau in his Bibliographical Dictionary, p. 522,,book ii.

Chap. V .—Learned Men,—Ar lifts,—Cabinets of Individuals.

Mr. LUDEKE', paftor of the German chapel, is a very learned man; he redded alength of time at Conftantinople, and has gathered fonie valuable information refpectingTurkey: he has publifhed feveral works in the Swedifh and German languages, andpoffeffes fome valuable books. Orationes ciominicce, Orationes ferme centum : Berolino.(Berlin .) Compofed and publifhed by the polTeffor’s great uncle. Biblia Malabarica ,Tranquebar : the firft part 1723, the fecond 1727; the interior title is Biblia Damulica.The New Teltament, printed alfo at Tranquebar in 1715, although of the fame fize asthe Bible , and in the Malabar language, the characters are of a larger type than thofe°f the Bible ; the whole forms three volumes in 4to. The firft edition of the NewLeft ament in the Finnifh tongue, in 4to. Stockholm , 1548. Bible Francaife , in folio;Stockholm , 1642. A fine manufeript of the Alcoran on vellum, with the various read-ings in the margin.

Mr. Swartz is the director of the King’s cabinet of natural hiftory at Drotningholm:although very young, he has yet travelled a great deal, and has added confiderably tothe knowledge of moffes, which has been his principal ftudy; he pofTeffes the mod per-fect collection of them in exiftence: he has publifhed a work entitled, Nova genera etfpecies Plantarum, feu prodromus deferiptionum Vegetabilium, in maximum partem in-cognitorum, quae fub itinere in Indiana Occidentalem, annis 1783—87, divenit Olaff

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