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squabble-conducting, ' which by the intensely-respect- 

 able-well -born-but-not-his-eyes - using - English - gentle- 

 man a careless -and -idiotic -manner -of -precious- and - 

 priceless - documents - an - evidence -of- unenlightened] y- 

 searching-example is.' For the name is in the diary as 

 plain as a pikestaff and in Pulteney's own book too, 

 second edition. The real difficulty is that he has muddled 

 the dates, both year and month of when the book ap- 

 peared: errors which Stoever must have crowed over 

 when he met with Pulteney's work. 



Linngeus thus prematurely announces another book ; 

 or it is advertised for him : ' Upsal, February 15, 1732. 

 An able student of medicine, Mr. Carl Linngeus, causes 

 a botanical work to be printed here, entitled " Funda- 

 menta Botanica." ' This did not appear till four years 

 after, in 1736, at Amsterdam. Linnaeus sent the MS. 

 to Griefs walda, but he could not find a person who 

 would undertake to publish it. This shows how early 

 Linnaeus prepared his system, what alterations he made 

 iii the ' Fundamenta Botanica,' and at the same time 

 how eager he was to make his system known, even by 

 advertising works which still remained in MS. 



While these things were in preparation who should 

 return but Rosen return to see his old rival lecturing in 

 his place ! One can picture to oneself Linnaeus * biting 

 his lip to keep down a great smile of pride.' How did 

 Rosen like all this ? The diary throws some light upon 

 the matter. Late 'in the year 1731, the Medicines 

 adjunctus, Dr. Rosen, having returned from his travels 



