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houfe, and recolle£ling the young Swede with whcr« at- 

 tainments he had lately been fo well fatibficd, recom- 

 mended Linnseus as being the mofl likely to give order 

 and defcription to his collections. The difplay of natural 

 knowledge which Linnaeus produced at their firft inter- 

 view, fo well accorded with the wifhes of ClifFort, that 

 he inftantly offered him a fituation in his family, and a 

 ducat a day for his flipend. 



An eftablifhment at once fo liberal and comparative- 

 ly fplendid, diverted Linnseus from his intentions of 

 returning to Sweden. In the houfe of his patron he 

 found colle£^ed whatever could gratify his defire of in- 

 formation in his favourite ftudies, and repofed with per- 

 fect eafe with refpeft to pecuniary circumftanccs. In 

 the year 1736 he publifhed his Fundamenta Botanica 

 which afterwards appeared in an enlarged form, under 

 the title of Philofophia Botanica, his Bibliotheca Bota- 

 nica, and his Mufa ClifFortiana, or defcription of the 

 rare plant Mufa paradifica. In this fame year he was 

 admitted a member of the Imperial Academy of Natu- 

 ralifts at Vienna, under the flattering denomination of 

 Diofcorides the fecond. 



In the fummer of the following year, ClifFort, 

 defirous of enlarging his colle£lion of foreign plants, 

 furnifhed Linnaeus with the means of travelling into 

 England, for the purpofe of procuring fpecimens of the 

 rarer North American plants, at that time cultivated at 



