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' Hasselquist went to learn facts, not to fit the Bible 

 to his theories.' 1 But in this youth's study of the vegeta-. 

 tion of the Holy Land Linnasus must have been greatly 

 reminded of his own young days when he aided Celsius 

 with his book on ' The Plants of Scripture ' ; of which 

 the long-delayed first volume was only published so 

 lately as 1745; the second not till 1752. I suppose 

 Celsius had always meant to improve the ' Hierobota- 

 nicon/ and have it finely illustrated. This journey 

 of Hasselquist's must have been of immense interest 

 to the veteran dean, and most likely spurred him 

 on to the completion of his work. Of equal interest 

 was it to Linneeus, who was far less prone than 

 his senior to go learnedly and ingeniously astray as 

 Celsius did in the ' Hierobotanicon.' Hasselquist died 

 in difficulties at Smyrna, and Queen Louisa Ulrica,- at 

 Linngeus's instance, gave 14,000 copper dollars to 

 redeem his collections, which are preserved at Drott- 

 ningholm. 



Thus by a wide reaching effort, by all these travel- 

 lers under one central direction, was that foundation of 

 modern science laid which has since been of such bound- 

 less service to mankind. Linnaeus at once applied all 

 their discoveries to practical use, or pondered over them 

 for the enlightenment of the world. 



; The Russian has a right to pray against the locust 

 swarms as long as he does not know (what we do) that 

 1 Kingsley. 



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