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:HAPTER xxv. 



Birth a jd Early Life ot Butfon and Linnrcus compared Buffon's 

 Woi-k on Natural History Daubenton wrote the Anatomical Part 

 Burton's Books very interesting, but not always accurate He first 

 worked out tne Distribution of Animals Straggles of Linnaeus 

 with Poverty Mi*. Clifford befriends him He becomes Professor at 

 Upsala He was the first to give Specific Names to Animals and 

 Plants Explanation of his Descriptions of Plants Use of the 

 Linncean or Artificial System Afterwards superseded by the Natural 

 System Linnaeus first used accurate terms in describing Plants 

 and Animals Character of Linnaeus Sale of his Collection, and 

 Chase by the Swedish Man-of-war. 



Advance of Natural History Buffon and Linnaeus. In 



the year 1707 two men were born, the one in France and 

 the other in Sweden, whose names have become almost 

 equally well-known, although they were by no means equally 

 great. 



The Frenchman, George-Louis Le Clerc Buffon, the son 

 of a counsellor of the parliament of Dijon, was born on his 

 father's estate in Burgundy. The Swede, Karl Linnaeus, the 

 grandson of a peasant and son of a poor Swedish clergy- 

 man, was born in a small village called Rashult, in the south 

 of Sweden. Buffon enjoyed the best education which 

 France could afford him, with plenty of opportunity to culti- 

 vate his love of natural history. At one-and-twenty he 

 succeeded to a handsome property, and after travelling for 

 some time settled down to a life of ease and literature, partly 



