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premature death of Hasselquist, who was cut off 

 at Smyrna in 1752, and of Loefling, who died in 

 America in 1756. His grief for Artedi showed 

 how ardent had been the friendship of their youth : 

 this Naturalist had been his college companion ; 

 they had studied together at Upsala, and from the 

 similarity of their pursuits, had been led to contract 

 for each other the tenderest personal esteem. After 

 the death of his friend, Linnaeus, to whom he had 

 bequeathed the charge of his manuscripts, pub- 

 lished his work on Ichthyology ; and in a preface, 

 which has been applauded as a model of beautiful 

 latinity, he deplored the fate of his class-fellow in 

 language that reminds us of the pathetic lamenta- 

 tions of David over his beloved Jonathan. 



In nothing was the benevolence and good nature 

 of this illustrious man more remarkably displayed, 

 than in his conduct towards those who vilified and 

 opposed him, as the author of a new system subver- 

 sive of all established arrangements. He met with 

 many detractors in France. His principal adversa- 

 ries were Adanson, Buffon, and Lamethrie ; the 

 latter bitterly ridiculed him for placing man among 

 the mammiferous animals in the same class with 

 the horse and the hog! Buffon affected to deny 

 that he had either method or system. The learned 

 Haller was the most formidable among his German 

 antagonists. " Linnseus (says he) sets himself up 

 as another Adam, to give names to the whole ani- 

 mal creation according to certain marks of his own, 



