44 MEMOIR OF 



continue in the career of reputation and prosperity, 

 without exciting envy, jealousy, and opposition, from 

 various quarters, and the attacks of his adversaries 

 did not fail to wound his ambition. Yet, remember- 

 ing the advice of his venerable friend Boerhaave, 

 and being of too high a cast of mind to entertain 

 asperity, or indulge in splenetic invectives, he wisely 

 resolved to abstain from controversy. He took an- 

 other method to counteract the injurious influence of 

 his opponents, and it would be well if all naturalists 

 would act in the same dignified way when repelling 

 ill-natured attacks. He thought that something was 

 due to his countrymen, to show that all men of learn- 

 ing did not agree with his libellers, and he published 

 a little work giving a brief sketch of his life, a list of 

 his works, and the various testimonials given to his 

 talents by the most eminent men of the day. The 

 title was worthy of its author Orbis Eruditi Judi- 

 cium de Caroli Linncei, M.D., Script is." He made 

 no comments, but allowed opinions to be formed from 

 authority that could not be contradicted, and relied 

 upon the judgment which would be given upon the 

 words of a Boerhaave, a Dillenius, a Sauvauges, a 

 Jussieu, and a Haller. 



He was not, however, above being corrected, when 

 done with a proper spirit ; and was perfectly aware 

 that in the vast range he had undertaken, perfection 

 could not at once be obtained, and that some faults 

 were almost inevitable. In a letter to Haller, he says, 

 " who could perambulate, without erring, the wide- 



