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met with in all Germany, says Stoever, writing in the 

 last century. Our copy in the British Museum is 

 dated 1740 ; but all the biographers of Linnaeus aver 

 that it was written and published in 1738. For my part. 

 I have doubts, and should place it after his marriage, 

 when he was prosperous and therefore had more enviers. 

 It is a sort of book of fame, such as men of this century 

 make of newspaper-cuttings concerning themselves. 1 

 The title contains the favourite motto of Linnseus taken 

 from Virgil : ' To raise fame by deeds is the task of 



the noble-minded ' : 



Famam extendere factis, 

 Hoc virtutis opus. 



and on the back is Gronovius's inscription on the image 

 of Linnaaus : ' In spite of fate, from the Danube's 

 mouth to the frigid North shall thy name be known.' 2 

 Then follows a short sketch of the principal incidents 

 of the author's life, and a list of the different works 

 he had published, with their divers editions, making 

 altogether twenty-one ; besides the names of those 

 who have publicly accepted and vindicated his system, 

 with printed or written epistolary opinions of twenty 

 learned men, among whom are the most illustrious 

 botanists of that day five Dutchmen, four British 

 (including Sir Hans Sloane), four Frenchmen, two 

 Swiss, and five Germans. Boerhaave calls his book, the 



1 In this book Linnaeus says, 1735, 'Iter per Daniam, Ger- 

 maniam, Belgium, Jun. 23, M.D. at Harderwyk.' 



2 Gronov. in Nomen Linngei, ' Ne succumbe malis : Te noverit 

 ultimus Ister, Te Boreas gelidus.' 



