Johan Otto Hagström thanks for a letter from Linnaeus dated 8 October 1765 [this letter has not come down to us] with advice and encouragement to submit his observations to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien]. Hagström goes into details of how he will present his observations.
Hagström also refers to the last page in the journal he sent to Linnaeus for comments, where plants used or not used by bees are listed. Hagström adds additional plants to this list and suggests to Linnaeus that it would be beneficial to get the trivial names of the beneficial plants published in local newspapers such as Inrikes tidning or Upsala veckoblad.
Hagström has designed beehives fitted with glass windows that enable him to observe the bees at work inside the hive.
P.S. Hagström mentions that a person had grafted pear-tree cuttings onto a rowan, which produced pears this year but unfortunately the fruit was stolen before ripe. Hagström is still hoping that his wife’s inheritance will prove greater. He sends his respects to Daniel Solander and Carl Reinhold Berch. In further items of gossip he tells Linnaeus that God has assisted the impecunious Hans Hederström to a large and beneficial parish in the neighbourhood, that Lars Balk has rented a farm near Linköping, and that Lars Magnus Klase has passed through on his way to Stockholm to consult Olof af Acrel with regard to ulcers on his legs that have long been open at the ankle.