ir * DEDICATION. 



collection. Of this I now present 

 you with an English translation ; 

 and I offer it to you with the 

 more satisfaction^ because you 

 are, amongst all my Linncean ac- 

 quaintance, one of the most ca- 

 pable of entering into every feel- 

 ing of the original writer. His 

 love of truth and of nature were 

 not more ardent than your own, 

 nor was his mental profit more. 

 You, who have so deeply studied 

 the works he prepared for the 

 public, will with no less pleasure 

 listen with me to his familiar con- 

 versation. We here behold, not 

 the awfid preceptor of the learned 



