330 HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



quoted (p. 314,) beginning, " Since all science con- 

 sists in the collection of similar, and the distinction 

 of dissimilar things." And that the mention of the 

 original is not omitted by accident, appears from 

 this ; that Morison appropriates also the conclusion 

 of the passage, which has a personal reference, 

 " Conatus sum id prcestare in universa plantarum 

 historia, ut si quid pro ingenii mei tenuitate in 

 hujusmodi studio profecerim, ad communem utilita- 

 tem proferrem" That Morison, thus, at so long an 

 interval after the publication of the work of Csesal- 

 pinus, borrowed from him without acknowledgment, 

 and adopted his system so as to mutilate it, proves 

 that he had neither the temper nor the talent of a 

 discoverer; and justifies us withholding from him 

 the credit which belongs to those who, in his time, 

 resumed the great undertaking of constructing a 

 vegetable system. 



Among those whose efforts in this way had the 

 greatest and earliest influence, was undoubtedly our 

 countryman, John Ray, who was fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, at the same time with Isaac 

 Newton. But though Cuvier states 38 that Ray was 

 the model of the systematists during the whole of 

 the eighteenth century, the Germans claim a part 

 of his merit for one of their countrymen, Joachim 

 Jung, of Lubeck, professor at Hamburg 39 . Con- 

 cerning the principles of this botanist, little was 

 known during his life. But a manuscript of his 

 38 Lefons Hist. Sc. p. 487. w Sprengel, ii. 27- 



