Diagnoses of animals, probably written during Linnaeus fil.'s continental tour, starting with England, in 1781-1782, Paris and Holland.
Written on paper slips of the same size and paper as the slips used by Daniel Solander (1733-1782) and Jonas Dryander (1748-1810) to catalogue Joseph Banks's (1743-1820) collections.
References are made to the collections visited during his trip abroad: the natural history and ethnographic collection assembled by Ashton Lever (1729-1788), situated on Leicester Square from 1775 to 1786, otherwise known as the Leverian Museum ('Lev. Mus.'); The British Museum ('Mus: Britt:'); the Banks collections ('museo Banks'); the Royal Society collections ('mus: Soc: Roy:'); William Hunter's collections or the Hunterian Museum ('museo Wilh: Hunter'); possibly the Jardin du Roi in Paris ('museo Parisii'); and Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand's (1713 or 1716-1787) cabinet of curiosities in Leyden ('museo Dni Allamand').
Additions and corrections indicate that Linnaeus fil. came back to these slips once back in Uppsala in February 1783.
Each genus contains its generic description, along with the diagnoses of several of its species. See custodial history for a list of the genera.
Some drawings at the species level.
Species described tend not to be in the last available edition of Linné, C. von. "Systema naturae", which would have been the 1766, 12th edition.
References are made to various new works, probably consulted while Linnaeus fil. was in London, amongst which:
Pennant, D. 1781. "History of Quadrupeds". Vol. 1. London.
Buffon, "Histoire naturelle". various volumes: vol. XII, XIV, Suppl. VI.
Erxleben, J. C. 1777. "Systema regni animali". Leipzig.
Pallas, P. S. 1778. "Novae species quadrupedum e glirium ordine, etc." Erlangen.
Schreber, J. C. D. 1775-. "Histoire naturelle des quadrupedes". Erlangen.
Sulzer, F. G. 1774. "Versuch einer Naturgeschichte des Hamsters". Göttingen & Gotha.
Camper, P. 1782. "Natuurkundige verhandelingen van Petrus Camper over den orang outang; en eenige andere aap-soorten : Over den rhinoceros met den dubbelen horen; en over het rendier." Amsterdam.
ff. 1- 556 are generic and specific diagnoses.
ff. 557-602 contain various other annotations, including:
f. 557: a bibliographical list entitled 'Opuscula Zoologica non citata'
f. 561: schematic drawing of a quadruped with anatomical vocabulary.
f. 562: pencil annotations entitled 'Lev: mus:', regarding the Leverian Museum.
f. 564: annotations on various genera of mammals.
f. 566: crossed out diagnosis of an unnamed species.
f. 567: pencil drawing of plant with annotations on mammals.
f. 571: annotations on 'Fiska' (fish).
f. 572: list of genera of mammals, most of them crossed out, along with small list of 'incomplet:'.
f. 573: annotations on 'Lernea' (anchor worms).
f. 575: pencil drawing.