Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl Linnaeus

“The biographers of Linnæus have often mentioned the Journal of his Lapland Tour, to which he himself has frequently adverted, in various parts of his voluminous works, under the title of Lachesis Lapponica. The publication of this Journal has been anxiously desired; and so valuable was the manuscript considered, that on his whole collection and library being sold, after the death of his son, it was remarked that these papers at least ought to have been retained in Sweden, as a national pro[Pg viii]perty; the journey which they record having been undertaken at the public expense, and the objects illustrated thereby being, necessarily, more important to the author’s countrymen than to any other people.” -Preface