Linnaeus writes to the Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, i.e., Pehr WilhelmWargentin] and says he is grateful to all the members of the Academy for accepting his recommendation of Clas Alströmer
and Gustaf Fredrik Hjortbergas new members. Linnaeus is convinced that they will prove worthy of this honour.
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau has promised Linnaeus he will send the missing pages of Acta Parisina [Linnaeus means the transactions of the Académie royale des sciences, Paris, Memoires de mathematiques et de physique, see Linnaeus to the Academy and Wargentin, 3 November 1767{L3996}]. In connection to this Linnaeus mentions a letter from Wargentin, which he has mislaid [this letter has not come down to us].
A new volume of Acta Petropolitana [Linnaeus means, Novi Commentarii ] has come out, but Linnaeus has not received it yet.
Linnaeus is enclosing Hjortberg’s observations which he found a bit immature and was waiting for something more substantial[only one of those observations was published, "Rön om lättaste och snaraste sättet att läka tufve-sår på ängar" ]
The all-pervading problem at the moment is Peter Julinsköld’s bankruptcy and the situation of Uppsala university.