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formed a striking contrast. Carl von Linne stayed with 

 Sir Joseph Banks. He witnessed the death of his friend 

 Dr. Solander. Even at Paris Linnseus had now his 

 followers, who, despising all national prejudices, dare 

 to admire truth and genius wherever they find them. 1 



Louis XVI. made Carl a splendid present of the 

 ' Recueil des Plantes, gravees par Ordre du Roi,' three 

 large folios with five hundred copper plates. He had the 

 satisfaction of first learning personally the greatness 

 of his deceased parent's celebrity, by the universal 

 respect paid to him by foreigners. Buffon so honoured 

 Linnaeus, that when his son expressed a wish to see the 

 Koyal Botanic Garden, he wrote that ' on that day he 

 would be spoke to by none but him.' 2 



Carl spent the winter in Paris, and went to Holland 

 in the spring of 1782. He travelled through West- 

 phalia and Lower Saxony, and spent eighteen days at 

 Hamburg with his old friend Professor Fabricius, the 

 entomologist. Copenhagen again welcomed him ; thence 

 he went to Gothenburg. In August 1783 he made a 

 journey to Stockholm, when he was taken ill of a bilious 

 fever ; this abating, he returned to Upsala. He had a 

 relapse, and then another, which were attributed to his 

 visiting too early and too long his natural-history collec- 

 tions, which were kept in a damp and cold apartment. 

 Did the parsimonious Fru Linne afford him no fire ? 



1 Smith. 



2 De Candolle was born the same year Linnaeus died. In that 

 same twelvemonth Voltaire, Rousseau, Haller, all died. 



