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time we take the liberty of suggesting to Miss Brightwell, before 

 a second edition be published, access should be had to the docu- 

 ments in the Linnsean Society, and also to the correspondence 

 between Linnaeus and Haller, by which the work might be en- 

 larged, and some dates more particularly given. In doing this, 

 we think Miss Brightwell would find that some of the statements 

 in the present edition might be varied ; for instance, as to the 

 great naturalist having been parsimonious in his habits, and fond 

 of money, as stated by her in page 138 ; and as to his vanity 

 and inordinate love of fame, which she says was Linnseus^s foible, 

 page 158. She might also more particularly refer to the descrip- 

 tion given by himself (in our opinion anything but vain), as 

 follows : — " My head was prominent behind, and transversely 

 depressed at the lamboid suture ; my hair was white in infancy, 

 then brown, in old-age somewhat grey ; my eyes were of a hazel 

 hue, vivacious and penetrating, with a remarkable power of 

 vision. My forehead became wrinkled in after-life. I had an 

 obliterated wart on my right cheek, and another on the same 

 side of my nose ; my teeth were ineffective, having become un- 

 sound in early life from hereditary tooth-ache. My mind was 

 quick, easily moved to anger, joy, or sadness, quickly appeased. 

 In youth hilarious, not torpid in age, in business extremely 

 prompt. My gait was light and active. I committed all house- 

 hold cares to my wife, being myself concerned solely with the 

 productions of Nature. I brought to a conclusion whatever I 

 commenced, and during a journey I never looked backwards. ^^ 



Miss Brightwell refers to Linnseus's Tour to Lapland in 1731 

 (3,800 miles in six months), of which he kept and published a 

 most interesting journal, and concluded it with the following 

 entry, made on his arriving at Upsal : " To the Maker and Pre- 

 server of all things be praise, honour, and glory, for ever.^^ 



Linnaeus in after-life, when referring to his tibials and priva- 

 tions, says, " 1 thank thee. Almighty God, that in the course 

 of my life, amidst the heavy pressure of poverty, and in all my 

 other trials, thou hast been ever present to me with thine omni- 

 potent aid." 



The writings of Linnaeus are numerous ; he was not only great 

 as a botanist, as is shown by the ' Species Plantarum,^ termed 

 by his great rival Haller, " maximum opus in aeternum," con- 

 taining a description of every known plant, arranged according to 



