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money in acquiring treasures from all parts of the world, 

 and, moreover, he was a man who was always imagining 

 himself ill. Linnaeus, who was qualified as a medical man, 

 and was also a botanist of renown, was recommended as 

 the very man for Cliffort. Linnaeus was offered a home 

 and an income of 1000 florins a year. Cliffords gardens 

 and hothouses were an El Dorado for Linnaeus, and from 

 this home he wrote and published his Fundamenta 

 Botanica and BMiotheca Botanica (1736). Both of 

 these books established his fame, and attracted attention 

 in all parts of Europe. 



In the same year Linnaeus visited England, interview- 

 ing Sir Hans Sloane, Philip Miller, and other botanists. 

 After a short stay in England, he returned to Holland, 

 and then commenced in earnest the system of classifi- 

 cation which has made his name famous. During the 

 year 1737 he published six works which diffused the 

 revolution in botany from his Dutch home at Hartecamp 

 throughout Europe. These works, several of which are 

 classics, are replete in researches and philosophical and 

 critical doctrines. In Genera Plantarum he described 

 935 species of plants, and the much discussed aphorism 

 " that the characters do not give the genus, but the genus 

 gives the characters." 



Linnaeus grasped the fundamental ideas of morphology, 

 and he referred all the parts of the flower to leaves, 

 arguing from the numerous transitions that the parts must 



