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Respondent: Lars Magnus Klase (1722–1766)
Title: ... de Betula nana,...
Date of Defense: {30} June 1743
Paginations: [iv], 1-20, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Betula nana.
Soulsby Title: Betula
Drake Title: Betula Nana.
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Abstract: Linnaeus' first dissertation, concerning the European arctic and subarctic dwarf shrubby birch, a soboliferous species rarely more than 1 meter high.
Respondent: Cornelius Hegardt (1715–1772)
Title: ... Ficus, ...
Date of Defense: 15 September 1744
Paginations: [iv], 1-28, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Ficus.
Soulsby Title: Ficus
Drake Title: Ficus, ejusque historia naturalis & medica.
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Abstract: An account of the common fig, with an emphasis on its medicinal uses.
Respondent: Daniel Rudberg (ca.1724–1797)
Title: ... de Peloria, ...
Date of Defense: 19 December 1744
Paginations: [x], 3-18, [4], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Peloria.
Soulsby Title: Peloria
Drake Title: Peloria.
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Abstract: An account of colonies of Antirrhinum linaria (Linaria vulgaris Hill), which at one time was considered to be a distinct genus (Peloria L.) and in this dissertation is recognized correctly as a teratological form which produced actinomorphic gamopetalous corollas lacking any nectariferous spur. He observed, in some instances, that these flowers and the typical zygomorphic spurred corollas occurred on the same plant, and that the teratological flowers were sterile.
Respondent: Henric Fougt (1720–1782)
Title: ... Corallia Baltica adumbrans, ...
Date of Defense: 8 June 1745
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-40, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Corallia baltica.
Soulsby Title: Corallia Balt.
Drake Title: Corallia Baltica.
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Abstract: An essay on corals of the Baltic Sea.
Respondent: Barthold Rudolph Hast (1724–1784)
Title: Amphibia Gyllenborgiana, ...
Date of Defense: 18 June 1745
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-34, [2]
Lidén Title: Amphibia Gyllenborgiana.
Soulsby Title: Amphib. Gyll.
Drake Title: Amphibia Gyllenborgiana.
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Abstract: Linnaeus' first publication to present his adopted method of zoological description. It provides an account of 24 species of amphibia in the collection of Count Carl Gyllenborg (1679-1746), which he presented to the University of Uppsala.
Respondent: Roland Martin (1726–1788)
Title: ... Plantae Martino-Burserianae explicantur ...
Date of Defense: 12 December 1745
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-31, [1]
Lidén Title: Plantae Martino-Burserianae.
Soulsby Title: Pl. Mart.-Burs.
Drake Title: Plantae Martino-Burserianae explicatae.
Note: P. 19 unnumbered in two of three copies.
Abstract: An account of what Linnaeus held to be the 240 rarest species of plants in the herbarium of Joachim Burser (1583-1639), a collection of 25 volumes, presented to the University of Uppsala by M. Coijet.
Respondent: Samuel Nauclér (1724–1770)
Title: Hortus Upsaliensis, ...
Date of Defense: 16 December 1745
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-45, [3], 4 plates
Lidén Title: Hortus Upsaliensis.
Soulsby Title: Hort. Upsal.
Drake Title: Hortus Upsaliensis.
Note: P. 42 unnumbered in one of two copies.
Abstract: An essay on the history of European botanic gardens, and of the botanic garden at Uppsala, which had been founded by Olof Rudbeck the elder. By the time Linnaeus assumed responsibility for the garden, it had fallen into disrepair. Restoration was made possible in a few years due to the funds at his disposal, generous gifts of plants and the hiring of additional gardeners. Included in the dissertation are biographical accounts of Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702) and of his son, Olof Rudbeck (1660-1740). Reference is made to Linnaeus' centigrade thermometer.
Respondent: Johan Gustaf Hallman, d.a. (1726–1797)
Title: ... de Passiflora ...
Date of Defense: 18 December 1745
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-37, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Passiflora.
Soulsby Title: Passifl.
Drake Title: Passiflora.
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Abstract: Enumerates 22 species of Passiflora, adding a list of those which appeared to be of dubious specific rank. Includes an historical review of the introduction of the plants from Latin America. The morphological features of the flower and their association with the passion and death of Christ are reviewed.
Respondent: Erland Zacharias Tursén (1720–1778)
Title: ... de Anandria, ...
Date of Defense: 20 December 1745
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-15, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Anandria.
Soulsby Title: Anandria
Drake Title: Anandria.
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Abstract: This Siberian plant (Tussilago anandria L.) was earlier named Anandria by Johann Georg Siegesbeck (1686-1755), a St. Petersburg botanist, who believed it to provide indisputable proof that Linnaeus' doctrine of the sexes of plants was false.
Respondent: Johan Benjamin Heiligtag (1716–1771)
Title: ... Acrostichum ...
Date of Defense: 23 December 1745
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-17
Lidén Title: Acrostichum.
Soulsby Title: Acrostichum
Drake Title: Acrostichum.
Note: Soulsby notes a plate cited in the text, but he hadn't seen one, our copy has no plate.
Abstract: A study of the then-known species of the fern genus Acrostichum. No Linnaean trivial names or Latin binomials are given.
Respondent: Lars Balk, filius (1726–1790)
Title: Museum Adolpho-Fridericianum, ...
Date of Defense: 31 May 1746
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-48, [2], 2 plates
Lidén Title: Museum Adolpho-Fridericianum.
Soulsby Title: Mus. Ad.-Frid.
Drake Title: Museum Adolpho-Fridericianum.
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Abstract: An account of 65 of the rarer kinds of animals, chiefly amphibia and fishes, in the collection of the Crown Prince Adolf Fredrik, which he presented to the Museum of the University of Uppsala.
Respondent: Johan Gustaf Wahlbom (1724–1808)
Title: Sponsalia Plantarum, ...
Date of Defense: {11} June 1746
Paginations: [xii], [1], 8-60, [2], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Sponsalia plantarum.
Soulsby Title: Spons. pl.
Drake Title: Sponsalia Plantarum.
Note: Both copies have day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: A commentary on chapter 5 of Linnaeus' Fundamenta botanica (1736), defending his views on the sexuality of plants.
Respondent: Fredrik Hasselquist (1722–1752)
Title: Vires Plantarum, ...
Date of Defense: {20} June 1747
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-37, [3]
Lidén Title: Vires plantarum.
Soulsby Title: Vir. pl.
Drake Title: Vires Plantarum.
Note: Two copies have day left blank; one copy has day supplied in manuscript as {25} or {29}, partly illegible.
Abstract: An essay on the strength and energy of growing plants, with an account of 43 new genera reported later in Genera plantarum (ed. 5, 1754).
Respondent: Carl Magnus Dassow (1719–1751)
Title: Nova Plantarum Genera, ...
Date of Defense: {15} June 1747
Paginations: [vi], 1-32, [2]
Lidén Title: Nova plantarum genera 1747.
Soulsby Title: Nova pl. gen. 1747
Drake Title: Nova Plantarum Genera.
Note: Day supplied in manuscript on both copies.
Abstract: An account of 43 new genera of plants later included in Genera plantarum (ed. 5, 1754). Includes "Corollarium continens nova, in morbis specifica dicta medicamenta, ex Tr. de Plantis Coldinghamensibus in Provincia Noveboracensi Americes conscr. 1742 a Codwald Colden. [by Cadwallader Colden]", a commentary on chapter 12 of Linnaeus' Fundamenta botanica (1736).
Respondent: Mårten Kähler (1727–1773)
Title: ... de Crystallorum generatione ...
Date of Defense: 22 December 1747
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-30, [2], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Crystallorum generatio.
Soulsby Title: Cryst. gen.
Drake Title: Crystallorum Generatione.
Note: P. 3 unnumbered; p. 26 misnumbered 29.
Abstract: An essay on the formation of crystals and crystalline substances.
Respondent: Peter Sundius (1725–1786)
Title: Surinamensia Grilliana ...
Date of Defense: 18 June 1748
Paginations: [vi], 1-34, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Surinamensa [sic] Grilliana.
Soulsby Title: Surin. Grill.
Drake Title: Surinamensia Grilliana.
Note: P. 24 misnumbered 42. The plate of one of our copies lacks fig. 2.
Abstract: A description of 25 animals, mostly serpents, collected in Surinam and eventually given to M. Grill who gave them to the museum at Uppsala. Includes accounts of the rattlesnake and boa constrictor.
Respondent: Elias Aspelin (1721–1795)
Title: Flora oeconomica, ...
Date of Defense: 25 June 1748
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-30
Lidén Title: Flora oeconomica.
Soulsby Title: Fl. oecon.
Drake Title: Flora Oeconomica.
Note: P. 19 misnumbered 11.
Abstract: A compilation of the economic uses of some 300 species of Swedish native plants.
Respondent: Olof Andersson Söderberg (1728–1758)
Title: ... de Curiositate Naturali, ...
Date of Defense: {30} June 1748
Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-25, [1]
Lidén Title: Curiositas naturalis.
Soulsby Title: Curios. nat.
Drake Title: Curiositate Naturali.
Note: Both copies have day supplied in manuscript and H.A.M.C. altered to H.P.M.C.
Abstract: An essay encouraging the recognition and study of natural history as a science and not as a frivolous pursuit by amateurs only.
Respondent: Gottfrid Dubois (1723–1790)
Title: ... de Taenia, ...
Date of Defense: {9} December 1748
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-36, 1 plate, title page figure
Lidén Title: Taenia.
Soulsby Title: Taenia
Drake Title: Taenia.
Note: Two copies have day supplied in manuscript; one copy lacks day.
Abstract: An essay on the tapeworm, a parasite in humans, accounting for two species then distinguished, with notes on their morphology, reproduction, and control. Refers to other writers on the subject.
Respondent: Isaac J. Biberg (1726–1804)
Title: ... de OEconomia Naturae, ...
Date of Defense: 4 March 1749
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-48
Lidén Title: Oeconomia naturae.
Soulsby Title: Oecon. nat.
Drake Title: OEconomia Naturae.
Note: P. 5 misnumbered 7; p. 37 misnumbered 7.
Abstract: An essay on the general composition of the three kingdoms of nature, on the effective balance that exists within each, and among the three as a whole. Points discussed include the formation of soils by erosion of rock and action of water; the dissemination of plants (especially by modifications of seeds and fruits), the ecology of community succession; and, in the animal kingdom, the migration, hibernation, and multigeneric communities of animals and their relation to rarity or commonness of species. The conclusion is made that a balance and harmony of nature exists, and that a correlation exists between reproduction and survival.
Respondent: Johan Anders af Darelli (1718–1780)
Title: Lignum colubrinum leviter delineatum ...
Date of Defense: 11 March 1749
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-22
Lidén Title: Lignum colubrinum.
Soulsby Title: Lign. colubr.
Drake Title: Lignum Colubrinum.
Note: P. 17 misnumbered 13 in one of three copies.
Abstract: On the medicinal use of strychnine from the roots of the snakewood or Mungos tree, Strychnos colubrina L. (Loganiaceae), especially for snakebite poisoning. Its use is contrasted with that of the related drug, nux-vomica.
Respondent: Johan Otto Hagström (1716–1792)
Title: ... de Generatione Calculi, ...
Date of Defense: 5 April 1749
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-17 (i.e., 27), [1]
Lidén Title: Generatio calculi.
Soulsby Title: Generat. calc.
Drake Title: Generatione Calculi.
Note: P. 27 misnumbered 17.
Abstract: An essay on urine and the origin and treatment of bladder gallstones and gout.
Respondent: Jonas Andersson Kiernander (1721–1778)
Title: Radix Senega, ...
Date of Defense: {8} April 1749
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-32, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Radix Senega.
Soulsby Title: Rad. Senega
Drake Title: Radix Senega.
Note: P. 13 misnumbered 14; two copies have day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: An account of the botanical and medical properties of Senega snakeroot, or milkwort (Polygala senega L.), a plant of eastern North America used by the indians to treat snake bites.
Respondent: Pehr (Petrus) Löfling (1729–1756)
Title: Gemmae Arborum, ...
Date of Defense: 18 November 1749
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-32
Lidén Title: Gemmae arborum.
Soulsby Title: Gem. arb.
Drake Title: Gemmae Arborum.
Note: P. 31 misnumbered 13.
Abstract: An essay on the buds of deciduous trees, with a morphological classification, based on structure and position, of 108 species of trees and shrubs, designed to provide a means of identifying them in winter.
Respondent: Eric Elff (1718–1761)
Title: ... de Haemorrhagiis uteri sub statu graviditatis, ...
Date of Defense: 6 December 1749
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-23, [1]
Lidén Title: Haemorrhagiae uteri sub statu graviditatis.
Soulsby Title: Haemor. uteri
Drake Title: Haemorrhagiis uteri sub statu graviditatis.
Note: P. 12 misnumbered 2.
Abstract: A medical essay on uterine hemorrhaging at or hemorrhaging following parturition, and treatment to be given.
Respondent: Nils L. Hesselgren (b. 1729)
Title: Pan Svecicus, ...
Date of Defense: 9 December 1749
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-38
Lidén Title: Pan svecicus.
Soulsby Title: Pan Svec.
Drake Title: Pan Svecicus.
Note: P. 37 misnumbered 39.
Abstract: This is a tabulation, in six columns, of 856 species of forage plants named and described in Linnaeus' Flora Suecica (1745). Linnaeus' adoption of the name Pan is from classical application to the pastoral life (especially of shepherds and herdsmen). The work introduced a binary name for each species, the second publication in which Linnaeus did this (for the first, see his dissertation, Gemmae arborum, 1749). The remaining columns identify the kind of animal that was observed to eat (or reject) the plant.
Respondent: Lars Jonasson Montin (1723–1785)
Title: ... sistens Splachnum, ...
Date of Defense: {28} March 1750
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-15, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Splachnum.
Soulsby Title: Splachnum
Drake Title: Splachnum.
Note: Day supplied in manuscript on two copies; third copy lacks day.
Abstract: Splachnum L. is a moss genus (Splachnaceae), with a capsule that bears spores only in the upper portion, and whose swollen lower half is chlorophyll-bearing. The note on p. 3 provides a description of Juncus biglumis L. (see also fig. 3).
Respondent: Peter Jonas Bergius (1730–1790)
Title: Semina Muscorum detecta ...
Date of Defense: 25 April {1750}
Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-18, title page figure
Lidén Title: Semina muscorum detecta.
Soulsby Title: Sem. musc.
Drake Title: Semina Muscorum detecta.
Note: Two copies have year printed 1750; Soulsby brackets year [1750].
Abstract: On the fructification (spore production) of mosses.
Respondent: Jonas Sidrén (1723– 1799)
Title: ... de Materia Medica in Regno Animali, ...
Date of Defense: 25 June 1750
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-20
Lidén Title: Materia medica in regno animali.
Soulsby Title: Mat. med. anim.
Drake Title: Materia Medica in Regno Animali.
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Abstract: A compendium of material medica from the animal kingdom, accounting for 67 subjects (mostly animal species) used in medicinal preparations.
Respondent: Jonas Petri Halenius (1727–1810)
Title: Plantae rariores Camschatcenses, ...
Date of Defense: 22 December 1750
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-30, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Plantae rariores camschatcenses.
Soulsby Title: Pl. rar. Camsch.
Drake Title: Plantae rariores Camschatcenses.
Note: P. 26 misnumbered 62 in one of three copies.
Abstract: An account of 26 species of Siberian plants new to Linnaeus, who received them from Johan Georg Gmelin (1709-1755). Gmelin spent much of the period from 1733 to 1743 exploring the natural history of Siberia, on orders from Empress Anne of Russia.
Respondent: Jacob Rudberg (1725–1778)
Title: ... sistens Saporem Medicamentorum, ...
Date of Defense: 23 February 1751
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-20
Lidén Title: Sapor. medicamentorum.
Soulsby Title: Sapor. med.
Drake Title: Sapor Medicamentorum.
Note: Two of three copies have date altered in manuscript to {20} February 1751.
Abstract: A compendium of materia medica restricted to those medications identified by the sense of taste, and arranged in 11 classes.
Respondent: Leonhard Johan Chenon (1732–1808)
Title: ..., qua Nova Plantarum Genera ...
Date of Defense: 19 October 1751
Paginations: [viii], [2], 3-47, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Nova plantarum genera [1751].
Soulsby Title: Nova pl. gen. 1751
Drake Title: Nova Plantarum Genera.
Note: P. 13 misnumbered 15.
Abstract: This is part II of the earlier work (1747) of the same title of which Carl M. Dassow was the respondent. It is chiefly an account of eight new genera and their species, of plants collected by Pehr Kalm (1716-1779) in North America. A review of pre-Kalmian collectors in North America is provided.
Respondent: Johan Johansson Haartman (1725–1787)
Title: Plantae Hybridae, ...
Date of Defense: 23 November 1751
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-30, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Plantae hybridae.
Soulsby Title: Pl. hybr.
Drake Title: Plantae Hybridae.
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Abstract: An essay on plant hybridization in nature, acknowledging fertilization of one species by pollen of another, and reporting some fertile intergeneric crosses. Interspecific hybrids are cited in Geranium (= Pelargonium), Erica, and Mesembryanthemum (sensu latiore). A list of 34 species believed to be of hybrid origin is given with supporting notes for each. A second list of those of putative hybrid origin is also supplied.
Respondent: Johan Georg Beyersten (1717–1804)
Title: Obstacula Medicinae ...
Date of Defense: {19} February 1752
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-12
Lidén Title: Obstacula medicinae.
Soulsby Title: Obst. med.
Drake Title: Obstacula Medicinae.
Note: Day supplied in manuscript on three copies.
Abstract: A discussion of barriers to medical progress, with emphasis on faulty prescription of medications and ignorance by apothecaries of materia medica and of botany.
Respondent: Johan Hiorth (1729–1804)
Title: Plantae Esculentae Patriae, ...
Date of Defense: 22 February 1752
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-28, [2]
Lidén Title: Plantae esculentae patriae.
Soulsby Title: Pl. escul.
Drake Title: Plantae esculentae Patriae.
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Abstract: An enumeration of 127 native plants of Sweden that have been or could be used for food, condiments, and flavoring.
Respondent: Johannes J. F. Wiman
Title: ... quo Euphorbia ejusque historia naturalis et medica exhibetur ...
Date of Defense: 6 May 1752
Paginations: [ii], [2], 3-33, [1]
Lidén Title: Euphorbia.
Soulsby Title: Euphorbia
Drake Title: Euphorbia, ejusque Historia naturalis & medica.
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Abstract: An essay comprising a medico-botanical monograph of the genus Euphorbia, in which 53 species are described, with synonymy, with an emphasis on their medical uses.
Respondent: Johan Lindhult (1723–1770)
Title: ... de Materia medica in Regno Lapideo ...
Date of Defense: 15 May 1752
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-28
Lidén Title: Materia medica in regno lapideo.
Soulsby Title: Mat. med. lapid.
Drake Title: Materia Medica in Regno Lapideo.
Note: All three copies dated 18 May 1752 [Soulsby gives 15 May].
Abstract: A compendium of 72 mineral substances prescribed by Linnaeus for medicinal needs arranged according to his classification, with pertinent mineralogical and medical data for each.
Respondent: Sven Brodd (1722–1773)
Title: ... de Morbis ex Hyeme, ...
Date of Defense: 2 June 1752
Paginations: [iii], [1], 3-23
Lidén Title: Morbi ex hyeme.
Soulsby Title: Morb. Hyeme
Drake Title: De Morbis ex Hyeme.
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Abstract: A compendium of diseases associated with weather conditions in Sweden, on the effects of intense cold on humans and animals, on meteorological phenomena of winter months, and on signs predictive of weather changes.
Respondent: Carl Fredric Adler (1720–1761)
Title: Noctiluca marina, ...
Date of Defense: {9} June 1752
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-8, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Noctiluca marina.
Soulsby Title: Noctiluca
Drake Title: Noctiluca Marina.
Note: Three Strandell copies altered in ms. to {9 July} 1752.
Abstract: A report, with historical background, on the cause of phosphorescent luminescence of the sea, called "mareld" in Swedish, as seen in the wake of ships when in tropical waters, on wave crests in severe storms, or in western coastal areas in evening from August to September. Reported to be due to the minute flagellate worm, Nereis noctiluca, for which genus 11 species are described herein. Identity of the organism is reported to have been made first in 1749.
Respondent: Anders Magnus Wåhlin (1731–1797)
Title: ... Odores Medicamentorum exhibens, ...
Date of Defense: {30} June 1752
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-16
Lidén Title: Odores medicamentorum.
Soulsby Title: Odor. med.
Drake Title: Odores Medicamentorum.
Note: Three copies have day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: An essay on the value of medicinal odors by which to predict the therapeutic use of a medication. For this, Linnaeus classified such odors into seven classes.
Respondent: Samuel Ziervogel (1730–1797)
Title: ... sistens Rhabarbarum, ...
Date of Defense: 17 July 1752
Paginations: [vi], [2], 3-24, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Rhabarbarum.
Soulsby Title: Rhabarbarum
Drake Title: Rhabarbarum.
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Abstract: On the medicinal use of rhubarb (Rheum palmatum) of the Polygonaceae.
Respondent: Christopher Eliasson Gedner (1730–1773)
Title: Quaestio historico naturalis: Cui Bono? Quam breviter solutam ...
Date of Defense: 21 October 1752
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-29, [1]
Lidén Title: Cui bono.
Soulsby Title: Cui bono?
Drake Title: Quaestio Historico-naturalis: Cui bono? soluta.
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Abstract: This dissertation embodies Linnaeus' thoughts on his philosophy of nature, and asks the question: "To what purpose are the researches of the naturalist?"
Respondent: Jonas Gustaf Forsskåhl (1727–1783)
Title: Hospita Insectorum Flora, ...
Date of Defense: 4 November 1752
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-40
Lidén Title: Hospita insectorum flora.
Soulsby Title: Hosp. insect. fl.
Drake Title: Hospita Insectorum Flora.
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Abstract: A history of entomological literature and its authors, with a classification system for the insects of Sweden, including identifications of host plants.
Respondent: Fredric Lindberg (1733–1779)
Title: Nutrix Noverca, ...
Date of Defense: 7 November 1752
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-20, [2]
Lidén Title: Nutrix noverca.
Soulsby Title: Nutr. noverca
Drake Title: Nutrix Noverca.
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Abstract: An essay on the advantages of breast-feeding infants, in which it is stressed that diseases and temperaments are transmitted to the child via the mother's milk and that for this reason alone the use of wet nurses is discouraged.
Respondent: Gabriel Emanuel Avelin
Title: ... sistens Miracula Insectorum, ...
Date of Defense: 11 November 1752
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-22, [2]
Lidén Title: Miracula insectorum.
Soulsby Title: Mirac. insect.
Drake Title: Miracula Insectorum.
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Abstract: Treats the physiology of some insects.
Respondent: Michaël A. Baeckner (1728–1759)
Title: Noxa Insectorum. ...
Date of Defense: {18} December 1752
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-32, [4]
Lidén Title: Noxa insectorum.
Soulsby Title: Noxa insect.
Drake Title: Noxa Insectorum.
Note: Three copies have day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: A compendium of noxious insects that affect animals and plants, classified among 11 divisions based on the subjects of prey or infestation. These divisions include: humans, domestic animals, fruit trees, culinary herbs, wood structures and furniture, clothes and furs, forage and seed grains, ornamental trees and shrubs and house plants, pastures and grain crops (in the field).
Respondent: Harald Barck (1722–1782)
Title: Vernatio Arborum, ...
Date of Defense: 5 May 1753
Paginations: [iv], [1], 6-20, 1 chart
Lidén Title: Vernatio arborum.
Soulsby Title: Vern. arb.
Drake Title: Vernatio Arborum.
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Abstract: A compilation of results of inquiries made throughout Sweden on the vernaliation of trees and shrubs, together with meteorological data, to aid in determination of times to plant grains and related crops.
Respondent: Jacob Bjuur (1732–1774)
Title: Incrementa Botanices proximae praeterlapsi semiseculi, ...
Date of Defense: 2 June 1753
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-20
Lidén Title: Incrementa botanices.
Soulsby Title: Incr. bot.
Drake Title: Incrementa Botanices proxime praeterlapsi Semiseculi.
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Abstract: A brief history of botany, which contains information concerning the introduction of woodcuts into herbals, particularly those printed by Christopher Plantin and John Norton.
Respondent: Johan Christian Höjer (1730–?)
Title: Demonstrationes Plantarum in Horto Upsaliense 1753, ...
Date of Defense: 3 October 1753
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-27, [1]
Lidén Title: Demonstrationes plantarum in horto upsaliensi 1753.
Soulsby Title: Demonstr. pl.
Drake Title: Demonstrationes Plantarum in Horto Upsaliensi MDCCLIII.
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Abstract: An enumeration of some 1,450 species of exotic plants grown in the Uppsala botanic garden. This is the first publication after Species plantarum (1753) to use Linnaean binomials. William T. Stearn (1911-2001) considered this a first supplement to Species plantarum as it names and describes (in the footnotes) species not included therein.
Respondent: Anders Niclas Fornander (1719–1794)
Title: Herbationes Upsalienses, ...
Date of Defense: 13 October 1753
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-20
Lidén Title: Herbationes upsalienses.
Soulsby Title: Herbat. Upsal.
Drake Title: Herbationes Upsalienses.
Note: One copy has day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: About the organization and conduct of Linnaeus' field excursions in the environs around Uppsala, and of the plants, animals, and habitats encountered. The popularity and flamboyance of these excursions were frowned upon by Linnaeus' university colleagues.
Respondent: David Hultman (1732–1798)
Title: Instructio Musei Rerum Naturalium, ...
Date of Defense: 14 November 1753
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-19, [1]
Lidén Title: Instructio musei rerum naturalium.
Soulsby Title: Instr. mus.
Drake Title: Instructio Musei Rerum Naturalium.
Note:
Abstract: An account of the 18th-century Swedish natural history collections of Queen Lovisa Ulrika, King Adolph Fredrik, and Count Carl Gyllenborg, at Stockholm; of Kilian Stobaeus, at Lund; of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Samuel Ziervogel, at Stockholm.
Respondent: Nils Gahn (1733–1820)
Title: ... exhibens Plantas Officinales, ...
Date of Defense: 15 December 1753
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-31, [1]
Lidén Title: Plantae officinales.
Soulsby Title: Pl. officin.
Drake Title: Plantae Officinales.
Note:
Abstract: A pharmaceutical essay for Swedish apothecaries, forming the first enumeration of medicinal plants to be equated with Linnaean Latin binomials. It provides three catalogues: (1) Plants of the Materia medica (ca. 580 spp.), with binomials, identifying the parts used medicinally, with directions for preparation and use of selected parts; (2) Native plants of Sweden, which should be used for medicinal needs rather than any imported material of the same species; (3) Plants that should be cultivated in Sweden to preclude any excuse for their importation.
Respondent: Gustaf Jacob Carlbohm (1731–1758)
Title: Censura Medicamentorum simplicium Vegetabilium, ...
Date of Defense: {19} December 1753
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-24
Lidén Title: Censura medicamentorum simplicium vegetabilium.
Soulsby Title: Cens. med.
Drake Title: Censura Medicamentorum Simplicium Vegetabilium.
Note: Three copies have day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: Cautionary notes on medical uses of herbs and other vegetables.
Respondent: Eric Magnus Lindecrantz (1729–1788)
Title: Cynographia, ...
Date of Defense: 21 December 1753
Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-23, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Cynographia.
Soulsby Title: Cynogr.
Drake Title: Cynographia.
Note:
Abstract: This account of the domesticated dog is held by historical zoologists to exemplify Linnaeus' first and complete zoological description according to the format prescribed by Linnaeus in his "Methodus demonstrandi" of his Systema naturae.
Respondent: Anders Hedenberg (1737–1798)
Title: ... sistens Stationes Plantarum, ...
Date of Defense: 3 April 1754
Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-23, [1]
Lidén Title: Stationes plantarum.
Soulsby Title: Stat. pl.
Drake Title: Stationes Plantarum.
Note: Four of five copies corrected in manuscript to read H.P.M.C.
Abstract: An essay on plant habitats, with examples of flowering plants found in each.
Respondent: Isaac Olof Grufberg (1736–1764)
Title: Flora Anglica, ...
Date of Defense: 3 April 1754
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-29, [3]
Lidén Title: Flora anglica.
Soulsby Title: Fl. Angl.
Drake Title: Flora Anglica.
Note: Four of five copies corrected in manuscript to read H.P.M.C.
Abstract: This is the first publication to classify English plants according to Linnaeus' system. It enumerates some 700 species common to England and Scandanavia, plus another 300 not known in Sweden.
Respondent: Olof Stickman (1731–1798)
Title: Herbarium Amboinense, ...
Date of Defense: 11 May 1754
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-28
Lidén Title: Herbarium amboinense.
Soulsby Title: Herb. Amboin.
Drake Title: Herbarium Amboinense.
Note:
Abstract: A commentary on the Herbarium Amboinense (1741-1755) of George Eberhard Rumph (1627-1702), with Linnean equivalent names given for Rumph's polynomials.
Respondent: Lars Hiortzberg (1727–1789)
Title: ... de Methodo investigandi Vires Medicamentorum chemica, ...
Date of Defense: 2 October 1754
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-16
Lidén Title: Methodus investigandi vires medicamentorum chemica.
Soulsby Title: Vir. med.
Drake Title: Methodo Investigandi Vires Medicamentorum Chemica.
Note:
Abstract: A pharmacological dissertation on the chemical method of examining pharmaceutical preparations to analyze their odors, flavors and chemical compositions. The work points out that poisonous plants may possess toxic qualities in some parts and not in others and that careful chemical study of all parts of a plant is essential to a reliable knowledge of its pharmaceutical nature.
Respondent: Pehr Zetzell (1724–1802)
Title: Consectaria electrico-medica ...
Date of Defense: 12 October 1754
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-8
Lidén Title: Consectaria electrico-medica.
Soulsby Title: Cons. elec.-med.
Drake Title: Consectaria Electrico-Medica.
Note:
Abstract: A study in the medical value of electrical treatments in curing human disorders.
Respondent: Carl Fredrik Hoffberg (1729–1790)
Title: Cervus Rheno, ...
Date of Defense: 23 October 1754
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-24, 1 plate (plate is on p. [iv])
Lidén Title: Cervus Rheno.
Soulsby Title: Cervus
Drake Title: Cervus Rheno.
Note:
Abstract: History of the reindeer, an animal of vital importance to inhabitants of Lapland and other arctic areas. Includes observations on reindeers’ diet.
Respondent: Isaac Nilsson Palmér (1735–1787)
Title: ... Oves breviter adumbrans, ...
Date of Defense: 30 October 1754
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-24
Lidén Title: Ovis.
Soulsby Title: Oves
Drake Title: Oves.
Note: P. 12 misnumbered 13.
Abstract: A dissertation on the domestic sheep (Ovis aires L.), its relatives, the breeds known to Linnaeus, their diseases (including the liver fluke) and alleged remedies, and an enumeration of some 140 species of plants which sheep will not eat, plus those that are poisonous when eaten.
Respondent: Johan Justus Nauman (1735–1778)
Title: ... de Mure Indico ...
Date of Defense: 20 {18} November {December} 1754
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-23, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Mus indicus.
Soulsby Title: Mus ind.
Drake Title: Mure Indico.
Note: Of three copies, one has the date corrected in
Abstract: A zoological account of the guinea pig, Cavea porcellus, of the Guianas and Brazil. Linnaeus first placed it in the genus Mus and later in Cavea as C. cobaga in Systema naturae (ed. 13, 1767).
Respondent: Johan Gustaf Wollrath (1736–1791)
Title: ... de Horticultura academica, ...
Date of Defense: 18 December 1754
Paginations: [viii], [1], 2-21, [3]
Lidén Title: Horticultura academica.
Soulsby Title: Hort. acad.
Drake Title: Horticultura Academica.
Note:
Abstract: A discussion of the status of horticultural education in Sweden and on gardening as an art.
Respondent: Johan Lorens Odhelius (1737–1816)
Title: ... s[i]stens Chinensia Lagerströmiana, ...
Date of Defense: {23} December 1754
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-36, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Chinensia Lagerströmiana.
Soulsby Title: Chin. Lagerstr.
Drake Title: Chinensia Lagerströmiana.
Note: All three copies have day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: An account of collections from China made by Linnaeus' pupils Pehr Osbeck (1723-1805), Christopher Tärnström (1711-1746) and Olof Torén (1718-1753) while attached as naturalists to ships of the Swedish East India Company.
Respondent: Abrahamus Danielis Juslenius (1732–1803)
Title: Centuria I. Plantarum, ...
Date of Defense: 19 February 1755
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-35, [1]
Lidén Title: Centuria plantarum I.
Soulsby Title: Cent. I. pl.
Drake Title: Centuria I. Plantarum.
Note:
Abstract: This dissertation and another, Centuria II, Plantarum, include descriptions of rare or previously undescribed plants sent to Linnaeus from various parts of the world.
Respondent: Eric Torner (1731–1767)
Title: Centuria II. Plantarum, ...
Date of Defense: 2 June 1756 {1755}
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-33, [1]
Lidén Title: Centuria plantarum II.
Soulsby Title: Cent. II. pl.
Drake Title: Centuria II. Plantarum.
Note: Both copies dated 1756 [Soulsby gives date as 1755].
Abstract: This dissertation and another, Centuria I, Plantarum, include descriptions of rare or previously undescribed plants sent to Linnaeus from various parts of the world.
Respondent: Nils Ericsson Dahlberg (1736–1820)
Title: ... Metamorphoses Plantarum sistens ...
Date of Defense: {3} June {July} 1755
Paginations: [iv], [1], 6-26
Lidén Title: Metamorphis [sic] plantarum.
Soulsby Title: Metam. pl.
Drake Title: Metamorphoses Plantarum.
Note: All three copies have day supplied in manuscript and the month has been corrected to Julii in two copies. All three copies also have the name of the auditorium and the time of day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: This is Linnaeus' exposition on plant physiology and morphology in which he held the calyx of the flower to be an extension of the epidermis or outer bark; the corolla to be an extension of the inner bark; the androecium to be that of the wood or xylem and the gynoecium to be that of the pith. It is proposed that variations in these structures are due to differences in soil, climate and other environmental factors.
Respondent: Peter Petersson Bremer (1731–1765)
Title: Somnus Plantarum ...
Date of Defense: 10 December 1755
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-22, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Somnus plantarum.
Soulsby Title: Somn. pl.
Drake Title: Somnus Plantarum.
Note:
Abstract: This account of the "sleep of plants," treating and classifying those flowering plants whose flowers opened or closed in relation to daylight or darkness, or the time of day, attracted great interest to the subject.
Respondent: Johan Pfeiffer (1731–1806)
Title: ... Fungus melitensis ...
Date of Defense: 20 December 1755
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-16, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Fungus melitensis.
Soulsby Title: Fung. melit.
Drake Title: Fungus Melitensis.
Note:
Abstract: A monograph of the "Maltese fungus" (Cynomorium coccineum L., Balanophoraceae), a parasitic flowering plant of the southern Mediterranean. It reports the results of medical studies of this and related plants, particularly for use as astringents and antiseptics.
Respondent: Bengt Johan Strand (1738–1790)
Title: Flora Palaestina, ...
Date of Defense: {10} March 1756
Paginations: [v], [1], 7-32, [2]
Lidén Title: Flora palaestina.
Soulsby Title: Fl. Palaest.
Drake Title: Flora Palaestina.
Note: Three of the four copies have day supplied in manuscript. One copy lacks day.
Abstract: The work is an enumeration of the plants of Palestine, based largely on the collections of Frederik Hasselquist (1722-1752).
Respondent: Nilsson Åmman (1731–1783)
Title: Flora Alpina, ...
Date of Defense: 24 March 1756
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-27, [1]
Lidén Title: Flora alpina.
Soulsby Title: Fl. alp.
Drake Title: Flora Alpina.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on the kinds of plants suitable for culture on the arid mountains of Lapland and adjoining alpine areas, with a list of over 400 European alpine plants from which selections could be made for Lapp culture. A Royal Alpine Garden in Lapland is proposed for the evaluation of alpine plants of potential value for economic uses.
Respondent: Alexander Malachias Berger (1737–1804)
Title: Calendarium Florae, ...
Date of Defense: 31 March 1756
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-5, [19]
Lidén Title: Calendarium florae.
Soulsby Title: Calend. fl.
Drake Title: Calendarium Florae.
Note:
Abstract: Of all Linnaean dissertations, none captured public attention as did this, nor has any other been the subject of more editions, reprints, translations, and commentary. The work, based on observations made in Uppsala in 1755, provided an enumeration of the flowering times of plants in each of the four seasons, and by month within each season.
Respondent: Anders Magnus Wåhlin (1731–1797)
Title: ... de Pulsu intermittente, ...
Date of Defense: 5 May 1756
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-18
Lidén Title: Pulsus intermittens.
Soulsby Title: Puls. interm.
Drake Title: Pulsu Intermittente.
Note:
Abstract: This essay treats irregular pulse rates due to such heart diseases as inflammation, polyps, tumors and abscesses, valvular ossifications and irregular activity of the heart nerves. Attention is also given to arterial disease and blood conditions caused by fever.
Respondent: Theophilus Erdman Nathorst (1734–1804)
Title: Flora Monspeliensis, ...
Date of Defense: 15 June 1756
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-30
Lidén Title: Flora monspeliensis.
Soulsby Title: Fl. Monsp.
Drake Title: Flora Monspeliensis.
Note:
Abstract: The work is based on Pierre Magnol's (1638-1715) Botanicum monspeliense (Montpellier, 1676) and François Boissier de Sauvages de la Croix's (1706-1767) Methodus foliorum, seu plantae florae monspeliensis (La Haye, 1751).
Respondent: Peter Engström (1735–1803)
Title: ... Fundamenta Valetudinis sistens, ...
Date of Defense: 17 June 1756
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-13, [1]
Lidén Title: Fundamenta valetudines.
Soulsby Title: Fund. valet.
Drake Title: Fundamenta Valetudinis.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on the fundamentals of good health, with recommendations for correct living in each period.
Respondent: Johan von Coelln (1725–1808)
Title: ... sistens Specifica Canadensium ...
Date of Defense: {19 June} 1756
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-28
Lidén Title: Specifica canadensium.
Soulsby Title: Specif. Canad.
Drake Title: Specifica Canadensium.
Note: Two copies have day and month supplied in manuscript; third copy lacks day and month.
Abstract: A compiled account mostly of Canadian animals and plants (but also of northeastern United States), based on letters and writings of Peter Kalm (1716-1779), on John Bartram's (1699-1777) Observations ... (London, 1751), and on Cadwallader Colden's (1688-1776) articles in Acta Soc. Reg. Sci. Upsaliensis 1743: 81-136 and 1744/50: 47-82.
Respondent: Hieronymus von der Burg (1730–1811)
Title: ... de Acetariis, ...
Date of Defense: 29 June 1756
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-16
Lidén Title: Acetaria.
Soulsby Title: Acetaria
Drake Title: Acetariis.
Note:
Abstract: This medico-botanical thesis presents Linnaeus' views on the dietary and medical importance of salad greens, with special reference to those from plants native to or readily available in Sweden.
Respondent: Johan Lyman (1734–1790)
Title: ... de Phalaena Bombyce, ...
Date of Defense: 4 December 1756
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-12
Lidén Title: Phalaena bombyx.
Soulsby Title: Phalaena
Drake Title: Phalaena Bombyce.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on the silkworm (Phalaena bombyx), discussing its history, culture and the species of mulberry (Morus spp.) on which it feeds.
Respondent: Carl Daniel Ekmarck (1734–1789)
Title: ... Migrationes Avium sistens, ...
Date of Defense: 2 March 1757
Paginations: [iv], [1], 6-38
Lidén Title: Migrationes avium.
Soulsby Title: Migr. avium
Drake Title: Migrationes Avium.
Note: One copy, probably earlier issue, has day supplied in manuscript. The other two copies have day printed.
Abstract: An enumeration of exotic and indigenous birds in Sweden observed during their annual migrations. Basil Soulsby (1864-1933) reported this to be the most complete of such lists published to 1757.
Respondent: Pehr af Bjerkén (1731–1774)
Title: Morbi Expeditionis Classicae 1756, ...
Date of Defense: 18 May 1757
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-22
Lidén Title: Morbi expeditiones classicae 1756.
Soulsby Title: Morb. exped.
Drake Title: Morbi Expeditionis Classicae.
Note:
Abstract: An account of shipboard diseases (especially the Uppsala fever) and their treatment.
Respondent: Anders Boström (1724–1769)
Title: Febris Upsaliensis, ...
Date of Defense: 21 May 1757
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-12
Lidén Title: Febris upsaliensis.
Soulsby Title: Febr. Upsal.
Drake Title: Febris Upsaliensis.
Note:
Abstract: A discussion of the causes, symptoms and cures of an epidemic in Uppsala in 1756 of a tertian form of malaria, attributed to moist and foul air, from the closeness of the city’s streets and its stagnating canals and waters.
Respondent: Jørgen Tyge Holm (1726–1759)
Title: Prodromus Florae Danicae, ...
Date of Defense: 2 June 1757
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-26, [2]
Lidén Title: Flora danica.
Soulsby Title: Prodr. fl. Dan.
Drake Title: Prodromus Florae Danicae.
Note:
Abstract: Basil Soulsby (1864-1933) reported this work to have been based mainly on Peder Kylling's (1640-1696) Viridarium danicum (1688), which accounts for about 1,100 species of plants native to Denmark.
Respondent: Isaac Svensson (1726–1795)
Title: ... de Pane Diaetetico, ...
Date of Defense: 8 June 1757
Paginations: [iv], [1], 6-20
Lidén Title: Panis diaeteticus.
Soulsby Title: Pane diaet.
Drake Title: Pane Diaetetico.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on bread, including the kinds of grain from which it may be made (including substitutes such as rice, millet, sago flour, yams, sea-rush, etc.). Details of flour grinding, dough preparation and baking, as well as nutritional value of various kinds of bread are given. The merits and faults of leavened, unleavened and fermented breads are discussed. The eating of hot, freshly made bread is considered unwholesome.
Respondent: Johan Henrik Hager (d. 1770)
Title: Natura Pelagi, ...
Date of Defense: 18 June 1757
Paginations: [iv], [1], 6-15, [1]
Lidén Title: Natura pelagi.
Soulsby Title: Nat. pelagi
Drake Title: Natura Pelagi.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on the biological life of the oceans, including maritime birds. Describes the Sargasso Sea and its Fucus, birds, invertebrate marine life, marine fish and amphibia, and marine mammals (whales, dolphins, seals).
Respondent: Anton Rolandsson Martin (1729–1785)
Title: Buxbaumia, ...
Date of Defense: 22 June 1757
Paginations: [iv], [1], 6-16, title page figure
Lidén Title: Buxbaumia.
Soulsby Title: Buxbaumia
Drake Title: Buxbaumia.
Note:
Abstract: Buxbaumia is a genus of mosses whose leaves fall off before capsule maturity, named for Johannes Christian Buxbaum (1694-1730), German botanist, who first discovered it near Astrakhan.
Respondent: Johan Carl Nyander (1734–1814)
Title: Exanthemata Viva, ...
Date of Defense: 23 June 1757
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-16
Lidén Title: Exanthemata viva.
Soulsby Title: Exanth. viva
Drake Title: Exanthemata Viva.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on the origins of contagious diseases of man.
Respondent: Bogislaus Hornborg (1739–1789)
Title: ... de Transmutatione Frumentorum, ...
Date of Defense: 28 September 1757
Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-16, [2]
Lidén Title: Transmutatio frumentorum.
Soulsby Title: Transm. frum.
Drake Title: Transmutatione Frumentorum.
Note:
Abstract: An attempt by Linnaeus to refute the then popular notion that one kind of cereal crop could be transformed to another by edaphic factors, such as soil or soil nutrients.
Respondent: Magnus Gabriel Österman (1730–1794)
Title: Culina mutata, ...
Date of Defense: 16 November 1757
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-12
Lidén Title: Culina mutata.
Soulsby Title: Cul. mut.
Drake Title: Culina Mutata.
Note:
Abstract: This essay deals with the superiority of modern vegetable foodstuffs over those used by the ancients.
Respondent: Johan Georg Colliander (1728–1796)
Title: ... de Spigelia anthelmia, ...
Date of Defense: 22 {30} March 1758
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-16, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Spigelia anthelmia.
Soulsby Title: Spigelia
Drake Title: Spigelia Anthelmia.
Note: Three copies have date as 22 March 1758.
Abstract: On the Indian pink and its use to expell worms from the human body. Includes discussion of various worms that invade the human body and the symptoms which indicate their presence. The history of the plant is taken mainly from contemporary accounts of Patrick Browne (1720-1790) and Alexander Garden (1730-1791).
Respondent: Johan Christian Peter Petersen (1739–1774)
Title: ... de Cortice Peruviano, ...
Date of Defense: {10} May 1758
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-38
Lidén Title: Cortex peruvianus.
Soulsby Title: Cort. peruv.
Drake Title: Cortice Peruviano.
Note: Two copies have day supplied in manuscript; two copies lack day.
Abstract: A discourse on the medicinal value of quinine from cinchona bark (Cinchona sp.) in the treatment of malaria and other fevers.
Respondent: David Magnus Virgander (1734–1783)
Title: Frutetum Svecicum, ...
Date of Defense: 23 May 1758
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-26
Lidén Title: Frutetum svecicum.
Soulsby Title: Fr. Svec.
Drake Title: Frutetum Svecicum.
Note:
Abstract: On the culture of fruit trees and fruit-producing shrubs in Sweden, and the importance of native plants for food.
Respondent: Jonas Theodor Fagraeus (1729–1797)
Title: ... sistens Medicamenta graveolentia ...
Date of Defense: 13 June 1758
Paginations: [vi], [1], 2-24
Lidén Title: Medicamenta graveolentia.
Soulsby Title: Med. grav.
Drake Title: Medicamenta Graveolentia.
Note:
Abstract: A compendium of materia medica restricted to those medications having strong unpleasant odors, believed by Linnaeus to serve as a group useful for treatment of disorders of the nervous system.
Respondent: Eric Olof Rydbeck (1732–1795)
Title: Pandora Insectorum, ...
Date of Defense: 15 July 1758
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-31 (i.e., 23), 1 plate
Lidén Title: Pandora insectorum.
Soulsby Title: Pand. insect.
Drake Title: Pandora Insectorum.
Note: P. 17 misnumbered 38; p. 23 misnumbered 31.
Abstract: An essay on the metamorphosis of insects, with an enumeration of Swedish plants on which they feed. The plate is of nearly 50 rare kinds of insects with identifying numbers from Linnaeus' Systema naturae (ed. 10, 1758).
Respondent: Johan Pilgren (1735–1782)
Title: Senium Salomoneum, ...
Date of Defense: {21} February 1759
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-24
Lidén Title: Senium Salomoneum.
Soulsby Title: Senium
Drake Title: Senium Salomoneum.
Note: Two copies have day supplied in manuscript; one copy has day left blank.
Abstract: An essay on King Solomon's description of old age, mostly a paraphrase from the Bible, Ecclesiastes, XII.
Respondent: Augustin Loo (1736–1772)
Title: Auctores Botanici ...
Date of Defense: 14 March 1759
Paginations: [iii], [1], 3-20
Lidén Title: Auctores botanici.
Soulsby Title: Auct. bot.
Drake Title: Auctores Botanici.
Note:
Abstract: The work provides an alphabetical enumeration of some 350 authors of botanical works, giving for each his surname, first name, year of birth, professional or academic position, and title (abbreviated) of first botanical publication.
Respondent: Eric Anders Nordblad (1739–1810)
Title: Instructio Peregrinatoris, ...
Date of Defense: 9 May 1759
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-15
Lidén Title: Instructio peregrinatoris.
Soulsby Title: Instr. peregr.
Drake Title: Instructio Peregrinatoris.
Note:
Abstract: A manual of etiquette for scientists and collectors going into foreign countries, treating of daily records to be made of observations, collections, local customs and expenses. It is one of the earliest directives of this character and detail.
Respondent: Engelbert Jörlin (1733–1810)
Title: Plantae Tinctoriae, ...
Date of Defense: 16 May 1759
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-30
Lidén Title: Plantae tinctoriae.
Soulsby Title: Pl. tinct.
Drake Title: Plantae Tinctoriae.
Note:
Abstract: An account of some 100 plants, mostly European, useful in dying vegetable fibers and animal hair.
Respondent: Albrect Bäck (1737–1791)
Title: Animalia composita, ...
Date of Defense: 23 May 1759
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-9, [1]
Lidén Title: Animalia composita.
Soulsby Title: Anim. comp.
Drake Title: Animalia Composita.
Note:
Abstract: Provides descriptions of Lithophyta (corals) and Zoophyta (corallines).
Respondent: Carl Henriksson Wännman (1733–1797)
Title: Flora Capensis, ...
Date of Defense: 30 May 1759
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-19, [1]
Lidén Title: Flora capensis.
Soulsby Title: Fl. Cap.
Drake Title: Flora Capensis.
Note:
Abstract: A flora of generic names with specific epithets only and no descriptions or distributions data, based on collections made in Cape Province, South Africa, by Johannes Burman (1710-1779), Joannes Hartog, Paul Herman (1646-1695) and Hendrik Bernhard Oldenland (d.1699).
Respondent: Jacob Hidén (1731–1769)
Title: Ambrosiaca, ...
Date of Defense: 20 June 1759
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-14
Lidén Title: Ambrosiaca.
Soulsby Title: Ambros.
Drake Title: Ambrosiaca.
Note:
Abstract: Dissertation on Ambrosian medicines.
