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Having gone with Cliffort to Amsterdam, and af- 

 terwards to Leyden, he visited among others his 

 friend Van Royen, professor of botany, who having 

 made proposals of marriage to Miss Boerhaave, the 

 sole heiress of the great physician, had been rejected, 

 and therefore vowed hostility to the family. The 

 botanic garden there had been arranged and de- 

 scribed agreeably to Boerhaave's method ; but the 

 other now resolved to alter the disposition, and 

 adopt the system of Linnaeus. He accordingly 

 offered him a salary of eight hundred florins, if he 

 would live with him, and assist in the execution 

 of this scheme. Influenced by respect for his de- 

 ceased friend, he would not countenance the al- 

 teration, although he devised a plan by which nei- 

 ther his benefactor nor himself should receive the 

 honour. He remained with Van Royen, classed 

 the plants after a principle of his own invention, 

 and drew up a catalogue of them, which was pub- 

 lished in the name of that teacher. 



The next work which he printed was produced 

 by the genius and industry of Artedi. When he 

 resided at Leyden, previous to his going to Harte- 

 camp, he had the pleasure of meeting this friend of 

 his youth, who had left Sweden in 1734, and gone 

 to England to prosecute his scientific labours. From 

 thence he went to Holland for the purpose of obtain- 

 ing his degree, which he was unable to accomplish 

 on account of his extreme poverty. Linn£3us recom- 

 mended him to Seba, an apothecary at Amsterdam, 

 and author of a large work on natural history, who 

 received him as his assistant. But soon after, re- 

 turning home in a dark night, he fell into a canal 

 and was dro^vned. His countryman had the melan- 



