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Linnaeans, who had imbibed all the technical style of the 

 Swedish school, as well as its accuracy of discrimination. 

 We may now safely announce Hermann as the real author, 

 in conjunction perhaps with Baron Born, of that ingenious 

 but bitter satire the Monachologia, in which the several 

 species of monks are affectedly discriminated, and their 

 manners detailed, like the animals in the Linnaean Systema 

 Natura. This ludicrous performance has long since ap- 

 peared in a, not very exact, English translation, and was 

 rendered into French by the late M. Broussonet. As we 

 are led again to name this amiable man, too soon lost to 

 his country, after experiencing every vicissitude of revo- 

 lutionary peril and alarm, we cannot help distinguishing 

 him as one most zealous in the cultivation and diffusion 

 of Linnaean learning, a taste for which he chiefly imbibed 

 in England. He had no indulgence for those prejudices, 

 which cramped the talents of his countrymen, and pre- 

 vented their deriving knowledge from any quarter where 

 it was to be had. He recommended the younger Linnaeus 

 to their personal acquaintance and favour, which service 

 he also rendered, a few years after, to the person who now 

 commemorates his worth, and who will ever remember, 

 with affection and regret, his many virtues, his agreeable 

 converse, and his various and extensive acquirements. 



The intimacy which subsisted between this enthusiastic 

 naturalist, and the distinguished botanist L'Heritier, con- 

 firmed, if it did not originally implant, in the mind of the 

 latter, that strong bias which he ever showed for the Lin- 

 naean principles of botany. According to these his nu- 

 merous splendid works are composed. He moreover 

 imbibed, if we mistake not, from the same source, a pe- 

 culiar preference for uncoloured engravings of plants, 

 instead of the coloured ones which had Ions been in use. 

 It cannot be denied that the merit of these last is very 

 various, and sometimes very small. They do, nevertheless, 

 present to the mind a more ready idea of each species, 

 than a simple engraving can do, nor is the latter less liable 



