Cadwallader Colden with Gronovius, Linnceus, fyc. 89 

 hand, but alas ! the fellow did not come ; so that I was a whole 



month disappointed, having been very sorroy that I going to bed 



saw the packet lying in my room, and the next morning com- 

 ing in my room, I saw it still lying there ; till it happened that 

 Mr. Otto, a gentleman from . • . . advised me of his going to 

 England, who promised me to give it there in good hands. 

 I remain, dear sir, your most obedient servant, 



Joh. Fred. Gronovius. 



Gronovius to Dr. Colden. 



Leyden, April 3d, 1744. 



Dear Sir — A month ago, I hath the pleasure that my partic- 

 ular friend, Mr. Canwan from St. Christopher, going to London, 

 did me the favor, to take a small packet with him, directed to you, 

 in order to look there for an occasion to send it to you. In the 

 same packet you will find an answer to your characters, the Fun- 

 damenta Botanica of Linnaeus, and his Critica, with the second 

 part of the Flora Virginica, and my Index Supellectilis. 



Since I have found that your characters, of which you send 

 me a specimen under number 19, is responding to the Diervilla, 

 but I believe a quite different species. In the mean time I had 

 an occasion to write to my good friend Linna5us, and to get an an- 

 swer from him, of which I communicate to you some particulars. 



"Literas 17 Sept. datas accepi: ex lis percepi placuisse summo 

 arbitro novum creare in America Botanicum ; si ille tarn multa 

 praestet per te ac Claytonus, erint plantae Americana^ certiores 

 quam Europagge ; et nulla rerum vicissitudo plantas et hos bo- 

 tanicos unquam obliterabit. 



" Videtur certe cl. Coldenus vir acuminatus et occulatissimus : 

 hoc tamen video, quod si ipsas plantas non communicat nobis- 

 cum, minus utilis erit. Hoc vero si fecerit, erit systema sexuale, 

 et plantarum caracteres, et differentiae tales, quales tota Germa- 

 nia, ne quidem Europa unquam proculeabit. Jucundissimae mihi 

 fuerunt observationes ejus, quas mecum communicas. Ego ad 

 singula respondes." # * # * [Here follow several notes and re- 

 marks upon Colden's characters.] 



These are the remarks which Dr. Linnaeus hath made upon 

 some heads of your characters, about which I have wrote to him. 

 To satisfy him more, I left a copy for him of your characters. 

 At the next occasion, you shall see the Oratio Linncei de Tellu- 



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