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naturalist, that he requested to be allowed to defray 

 the expense of the publication; and the request being 

 granted, the work was immediately put to press in the 

 commodious form of tables, embraced in about twelve 

 folio pages, and in this way was the foundation laid 

 of that system upon which almost all those of the 

 present day are in many ways most intimately con- 

 nected, and by which the arrangements of the older 

 systematists were almost at once superseded. 



By Dr Boerhaave, Linnseus was introduced to Mr 

 Clifford, at this time the most enterprising botanist 

 and horticulturist in Europe. With him Linnaeus 

 spent perhaps some of his happiest days. Devoted 

 with all the ardour of a young man to a favourite and 

 fascinating pursuit, he was at once placed in one of 

 the most favourable situations hi the world for follow- 

 ing it out. " He enjoyed/' says Dr Pulteney, plea- 

 sures and privileges scarcely at this time to be met 

 with elsewhere in the world ; access to a garden 

 excellently stored with the finest exotics, and to a 

 library furnished with almost every botanic author of 

 note ; permission to purchase whatever plants and 

 books he thought worthy of being added to the col- 

 lection; and leisure to prepare his own works for 

 the press/' * In addition to these advantages, it is 

 said by his biographer Stoevers, that Clifford allowed 

 him a salary of one thousand florins yearly, but which 

 appears too munificent even for his liberal patron. 



Biography of Linnaeus, p. 87. 



