38 Dr. Surrn's Introductory Difcourfe. 
^ In Germany Profeffor Ludwig of Leipfic was now in great repu- 
tation; and he has fhewn himfelf an able phyfiologift and accurate 
obferver. He profeffed to differ in many points from Linnæus, 
but oppofed him with decency ; and indeed it appears, as a noble 
author of our own country has lately remarked, that Ludwig, as 
well as Haller, were only * Linnæans in difguife;" they profited 
of the lights they had received from him to build fyftems to rival 
his own. 
— No where have the Linnæan improvements been more flowly | 
received than in France, which is to be attributed not only:to the 
jealoufy of that nation for the fame of her immortal Tournefort, 
but alfo to her poffefling fome confummate botanifts, of fufficient 
'confequence to fupport for a time any fyftem they fhould choofe to 
efpoufe. womens t thee the Ai of the Juffieus claim the firft 
place, and efpecially Bernard de Juffieu, a name never mentioned 
without refed? Even at "Paris héwéver Linnzus had early an 
illuftrious proteétor in the Duke d’Ayen, now Marechal de 
Noailles, who correfponded with him long, procured him the notice 
and favour of the late king, and occafioned his majefty to fend him 
a prefent of feeds from his own garden at Trianon. The work 
of Adanfon has alfo done fervice to the Linnzan caufe, although 
certainly that was what its author leaft intended; but this is one 
of thofe books every reader of which muft diffent from the author’s 
opinions. In the fouth of France Linnæus had more admirers. 
Profeffor Gouan of Montpellier has adopted his principles both in 
his ichthyological and botanical works; and the excellent Gerard in 
his Flora Galloprovincialis, although he has not followed the 
fyftem of Linnzus, is every where clofely attached to his principles, 
and has ever been an enthufiaftic admirer of his merit. Nor muft 
I forget Profeflor Sauvages of Montpellier, who generoufly pre- 
fented Linnæus with his whole herbarium, rich in the plants of 
that 
