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of his experience. 1 1 get less reflective as I get older ' 

 is a universal thought of attentive people, put into 

 words by Haydon the painter. c ln early life every- 

 thing, being new, excites thought. As nothing is new 

 when a man is thirty-five, one thinks less.' Then is the 

 time to tabulate or formalise the results of thought. 



The published works of Linnaeus amount to more 

 than 180, including the ' Amoenitates,' for which he pro- 

 vided the material and revised them for the press. 1 



About 1751 Linnaeus published his ' Philosophia 

 Botanica.' In this work ' it is difficult to determine 

 whether we ought to admire the genius of the author 

 most in his inventive power, or in the exquisite scientific 

 arrangement which he has given to the whole ; the two 

 circumstances together certainly render it a most extra- 

 ordinary and pre-eminent performance. The " Intro- 

 duction to Botany " by James Lee 2 may be looked 011 

 as a sort of epitome of this work.' It has been edited 

 by many foreigners. He likewise began to publish 

 a new edition of the ' Systema Naturae.' The tenth 

 edition of this book, published in 1768, translated by 

 Turton, in seven large volumes, Linnaeus characterises 

 as a ' summary of everything I have seen in this world/ 

 His ' Dictionary of Nature ' was at least as great a work 

 as Johnson's dictionary of our language ; but, whether 

 author, compiler, or tabulist, the fame of Linnaeus does 

 not rest upon his books. These were not his chief works, 



1 Jackson, 



2 This has passed through six English editions. 



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