14 CONTENTS. 



Countries — Various parts of Europe visited by Pupils of" Lin- 

 naeus — Remarks on the Accumulation of Facts produced by their 

 Exertions, Page 251 



SECTION VII. 



LINNiEUS'S OCCUPATIONS FROM 1750 TO 1770. 



Publication of the Philosophia Botanica — General Account of that 

 Work — Linnasus engaged in arranging the Collections of the 

 Queen and Count Tessin — The Species Plantarum — Sir J. E. 

 Smith's Remarks on it — Quotation from the Preface, with Re- 

 marks — Linnaeus publishes improved Editions of his Works — 

 Obtains Prizes for Essays from the Royal Societies of Stockholm 

 and Petersburg — Is elected a Member of the Academy of Sciences 

 of Paris — Receives Plants and Seeds from various Quarters — 

 Purchases two Estates — Delivers private Lectures at his Mu- 

 seum — His Emoluments — His Son appointed his Assistant and 

 Successor — He receives Letters of Nobility ; and is rewarded for 

 his Discovery of the Art of producing Pearls — His domestic 

 Troubles, Infirmities, and sincere Reconciliation to his old An- 

 tagonist Rosen, who attends him in his Sickness, 260 



SECTION VIIL 



ACCOUNT OF THE SYSTEMA NATURE OF LINN^US. 



Linnaeus's Classification of the Animal Kingdom — Remarks on the 

 Gradations employed, and on Nomenclature — Classification of the 

 Animal Kingdom — General Remarks — Method of Tournefort — 

 Method of Linnaeus — Classification of the Vegetable Kingdom 

 —Theory of the Formation of Minerals and Rocks, 272 



SECTION IX. 



DECLINE AND DEATH OF LINNiEUS. 



Review of the Medical Writings of Linnaus— His Materia Medical 

 System of Nosology, Theory of Medicine — His last Work, a Con- 



