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Cape of Good Hope, and the various parts of America. 

 Every new acquisition was scrutinized, and received its 

 allotted name and distinction, from the hand of the correct 

 and classical Solander, who one day was admiring with 

 Collinson, Fothergill, or Pitcairn, the treasures of their 

 respective gardens, and another labouring with the distin- 

 guished Ellis, at the more abstruse determination of the 

 intricate family of marine productions, whether sea-weeds, 

 corallines, or shells. His own acquisitions, and those of 

 his friend and patron, in the fairy land of the South-Sea 

 Islands, the hazardous shores of New Holland, or the 

 nearly fatal groves and swamps of Java, were at the same 

 time recorded by his pen, as they were gradually perpe- 

 tuating by the slow labours of the engraver. To this 

 band of zealous naturalists the younger Linnaeus was, for 

 a while, associated, as well as the excellent and zealous 

 Broussonet, who, though not unversed in botany, devoted 

 himself most particularly to the more uncommon pursuit 

 of scientific ichthyology. 



The Banksian school, altogether intent upon practical 

 botany, had adopted the Linnaean system as the most 

 commodious, while it pursued and cultivated the Linnaean 

 principles, as the only ones which, by their transcendent 

 excellence, could support the science of botany on a stable 

 foundation. In these Dr. Solander was, of course, well 

 trained ; and, having added so wide a range of experience 

 to his theoretical education, few botanists could vie with 

 him, who had, as it were, caught his preceptor's mantle, 

 and imbibed, by a sort of inspiration, a peculiar talent for 

 concise and clear definition. Abstract principles of clas- 

 sification, or even such outlines of natural arrangement as 

 Linnaeus had promulgated, seem never to have attracted 

 Solander. In following the chain of his ideas, discernible 

 in the materials he has left behind him, one cannot but 

 remark his singular inattention to every thing like botani- 

 cal affinity, to which the artificial sexual system was, with 

 him, entirely paramount. The genera which, for extern- 



