18 PROGRESS OF BOTANY. [LKCT. I. 



Botanists have arisen, and still live, who, besides 

 illustrating and endeavouring to perfect systematic 

 Botany, have advanced, in a great degree, the 

 more useful parts of the science, by inquiring into 

 the properties of plants, the phenomena of their 

 functions and growth, and the effects they produce 

 on the great system of nature. In this part of the 

 science an extensive field is opened for the exercise 

 of human ingenuity, the investigation of which is 

 sufficient to employ, usefully, the longest life, and 

 the highest powers of the understanding. 



From the period of Linnaeus the history of the 

 science contains a long list of justly celebrated 

 names. Among these we find HALLER, an anato- 

 mist, physician, botanist, poet, and politician, the 

 friend at one time, but afterwards the rival of Lin- 

 naeus ; RUMPHIUS, who, although a physician, yet 

 was appointed to the situations of chief magistrate 

 and president of the mercantile association of Am- 

 boyna, the plants of which settlement he has de- 

 scribed in his work, entitled, Herbarium Amboi- 

 nense; (EDER, who began the Flora Damca, the 

 publication of which is still continued, under the 

 patronage of the Danish government; SCHREBER, 

 Professor at Erlangen and President of the Impe- 

 rial Academy; JACQUIN, BERGIUS; PROFESSOR 

 PALLAS; REINHOLD FORSTER, who sailed with 

 Capt. Cook ; THUNBKRG, the author of the Flora 

 Japonica, a work of unequalled merit ; JJTSSIEV, 

 immortalized by his attempt to arrange plants in 



