42 CAROLUS LINN&US 



Germany, in Holland and in France there 

 were many and splendid botanical establish- 

 ments and several learned botanical pro- 

 fessors of world-wide fame. His books if 

 published must have the approval of these 

 in order to insure for them success. He must 

 see these men, ingratiate himself with them 

 personally, show them his manuscripts, dis- 

 cuss with them the merits of his system; for 

 it was new, and in its leading characteristics 

 altogether revolutionary. His money was now 

 almost all gone, but what of that? He had 

 often been in such straits before, but some 

 provision had always hitherto been made for 

 him. 



Leyden was the seat of what, at the time, 

 was the most celebrated university in Holland ; 

 and, for botanical gardens, and botanical 

 celebrities who had taught there, was hardly 

 , second to Paris itself with its traditions of 

 Tournefort and his successor, Vaillant. In 

 Professor Paul Hermann's time, little more 

 than a generation anterior to Linnaeus, the 

 Leyden Garden had been confessedly the 

 finest and richest in the world. After Paul 

 Hermann, Dr. Hermann Boerhaave had pre- 

 sided there. He had retired from the pro- 

 fessorship three years before Linnseus's arrival 



