Linnaeus is returning Pehr Kalm’s letter to the Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, i.e., Pehr WilhelmWargentin].
However, Linnaeus wants to keep Kalm’s catalogue of seeds. He hopes they will get them in time [of sowing]
The Academy has sent a bird to Linnaeus for identification. But what a bird! All ragged and the tail missing! [Linnaeus described it in "En indianisk sparf"].
If Olof Petrus Hiorter should pass away, it would mean a great loss to astronomy, but only then would his importance be recognized.
Linnaeus is upset that Samuel Chydenius, “that archpedant”, has been published in the Lärda Tidningar.