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adopt the Linn^n arrangement. Upon his return to 

 Holland, Linnseus, always ambitious of adding to the 

 number of, his friends the firfl names among the fa- 

 vourers of natural fcience, endeavoured to obtain the 

 countenance of Dillenius, by dedicating to himhisCri- 

 tica Botanica : but in fome of his letters to Haller, Dil- 

 lenius treats him with a morofenefs of criticifm and a 

 harfhnefs of language, which the known learning and 

 endowments of Linnaeus did not deferve, and which it 

 became not one of the moft learned men in a learned uni- 

 verfity to apply. During his ftay in England, Linnaeus 

 had fecured the correfpondence of Miller, Martyn, Col- 

 linson, Rand, and Ehret. 



Fully gratified by the events and fucccfs of his jour- 

 ney, he returned to Holland about the end of the fummer, 

 and employed himfelf in the arrangement of ClifFort's 

 garden, and in digefting the fruits of hisown obfervations. 

 In this year he publiflried his Critica Botanica, Hortus 

 ClifFortianus, Flora Lapponica, Genera Plantarum, and 

 a fupplement called Corollarium Generum, forming to- 

 gether a mafs of original knowledge, fuch, as perhaps, no 



man ever produced in fcience within the fame period of 

 time. 



At this time the office of Phyfician in ordinary to 

 the Dutch eftabliihment in Surinam became vacant. 



The appointment was vested in Boerhave, who offered 



it to Linnaeus. This he declined, but recommended 



