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Feb. 28 - 46 Tour in Lapland by Linnaeus by Sir J. E. Smith

[in margin:] Embryology

p. 4 colts legs said to be as long as full-grown - bones of ear of infant same remarks on.

p 5 goslings are of same uniform yellow colour when hatched, whatever colour they may acquire afterwards.

p. 51 Cows in this neighbourhood without horns – "rudiments of horns found under skin."

p. 61 do hornless cows - but a "few bone horns of a fingers length & those bent down immediately from their origin so close to the hide as to be hardly visible above the hair"

[in margin:] in Angermanland

p. 71 Westbothland – "red cabbages thrives very well, but white will not come to perfection."

[in margin:] [illeg]

p. 127 Reindeer has 4 nipples besides two spurious ones further back, which very rarely afford any milk

[in margin:] Abortion

p. 313 Dogs are 4. very rarely 6, all yielding six, & none of them dry.

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[in margin:] Variation Domestication

p 314 The Laplanders known & name every reindeer "To be able to distinguish one from another among such multitudes, for they are like ants on a ant-hill, was beyond my comprehension."

Vol 2

p 87 The Solidago Virgaurea was here in blossom, though not yet on the Alps, where it flowers later.

[in margin:] wild var.

 p. 173 Linnaeus found that in third year he cd not distinguish seedlings of Silene maritima (Mem. Gartner's crosses) from S. inflata, but Sir J. E. Smith found the former kept constant in a garden. (See his Flora)

[in margin:] Fertility

p. 274 to p. 280 Appendix from Wahlenberg's Observations on the Lapland Alps. The Rubus araticus, the Vaccinium myrtillus Sorbus aucuparia, Rubus Chamaerops, Aira alpina, Carex insulata, Vaccinium aliginosum, Empetrum nigrum all extend beyond their proper & different zones to a height where they do not seed.

p. 280 Empetrum nigrum alone bears berries in the penultimate height zone; & the berries are twice as large as in lowlands.

[in margin:] W. Var