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o£ his patron George Clifford of Hartecamp. The note " Miller 

 f^ave him many rare plants from Chelsea " (Pulteney's ' General 

 View,' p. 528), probably refers to living plants for the garden. On 

 his return to the Netherlands Linnaeus wrote and printed liis splen- 

 did ' Hortus Cliffortianus,' the types of which are in the Botanical 

 department of the British Museum. In 1748 he received from 

 Gmelin, who travelled through Siberia, a collection of the greater 

 number of the plants of that country. He had before received, 

 from Grouovius, a collection of Virginia plants, and from Pro- 

 fessor Sauvages all those that grew about Montpellier {op. cit. 

 p. 542). Three years later, in 1751, Kalm returned from 

 Canada " loaded with a very considerable collection of plants, 

 of every one of which Linnaeus got specimens. In this manner 

 Linnaeus' s herbarium increased so fast, that it rivalled every 

 one in the world, he having collected all the species that were 

 to be found in Sweden, Lapland, and in the gardens of Clifford, 

 Leyden, Oxford, Chelsea, and Paris, besides all the plants from 

 Virginia through Gronovius, from Siberia through Gmelin, 

 from Kamtschatka through Demidoff, from Languedoc through 

 Sauvages; not to mention tliose he got from the garden at 

 Upsala and from all his other correspondents " {pp. cit. p. 544). 



In 1753 " Osbeck returned from China, and n)ade Linnaeus a 

 present of his collection, consisting of more than 600 Chinese 

 plants. Lofling's collection of plants from Spain and Portugal 

 amounted to a similar number. For two years j)ast Gmelin had 

 sent all the Siberian plants from that country ; Demidoff the 

 whole of Steller's collection ; Sauvages had made him a present of 

 the whole of Ids collection ; these, in addition to what Linnaeus 

 had collected in Lapland, Sweden, Denmark, Zealand, Holland, 

 England, and France, and what he had received from Kalm and 

 Gronovius from North America, and from all botanists through- 

 out Europe, rendered his herbarium one of the largest in the 

 world " (p. 51G) . . . Lolling was commanded by the King of 

 Spain to travel through South America, in order to collect speci- 

 mens for the Spanish Court, the Prime Minister, the King of 

 France, the Queen of Sweden, and Linnaeus " {op. cit. p. 547). 



" 1769. Linnaeus built at his country-place a Museum, which 

 was on a hill, and in which he kept his plants, zoophytes, shells, 

 insects, and minerals .... Eeceived an incomparable collection 

 of dried plants, bulbs, and seeds, from Governor Tulbagh, at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and likewise a similar one made by M. Kiinig 

 at the same place and at Maderaspatan " {op. cit. p. 552). 



'' Linnaeus collected and described every Swedish insect, and 

 procured others from both the Indies, nay, even from the 

 Southern hemisphere " (op. cit. p. 560). 



" He [the Creator] hath given him the largest collection of 

 plants that ever existed in the world, and his greatest delight " 

 \op. cit. p. 564). 



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