Memorials of Linntzus 



3 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORANDA, 1707-1768. On the 

 loose leaf is the draft of a Latin epitaph, in which he says of 

 himself " fidissimus doctor, acutissimus observator, indefessus 

 scriptor, clarissimus auctor, famam extendebat factis, Naturae 

 Regnorum reformator, Botanicorum Princeps dictus, sibi plura 

 naturae miracula visa gloriabatur quam ullo alio mortalium." 

 Swedish. Autograph. 



4 LIST OF WORKS, 1735-1774. Prefixed are the lines, 

 " Haec non sola mihi patefecit opinio famae | vulgaris, quaesita 

 Libris, nee Lectio priscis | sed Labor et studium, quibus otia 

 longa dierum | postposui," and appended is his favourite quotation. 

 Several of these works are shown in the second case, including 

 the first on the list, a dissertation on the Cause of Intermittent 

 Fevers submitted for his degree of M.D. at the University of 

 Harderwyk, 1735. Autograph. 



5 " CORRESPONDENTES EXTERi." An alphabetical list of 

 his foreign correspondents, among them Sir Hans Sloane, 

 J. J. Dillenius, Professor of Botany at Oxford, and other 

 English men of science. Autograph. 



6 LETTER FROM HERMAN BOERHAAVE, Professor of 

 Botany at Leyden, to Sir Hans Sloane, introducing Linnaeus, 

 beginning " Linnaeus has Tibi tradit, unice dignus Te videre, 

 dignus a Te videri : qui vos simul videt, cernet hominum par, 

 cui aliud simile orbis vix dabit " ; Leyden, 17 36 (18 July, 

 1736). Latin. Autograph. 



7 LETTER FROM LINNAEUS to Sir Hans Sloane, thanking 

 him for the use of his museum, u quod Tuum incomparabile 

 Museum mihi, quoties accessi, aperire numquam deliberasti," 

 and transmitting a small work of his own ; Amsterdam, 

 21 Jan., 1737. Latin. Autograph. 



Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), a wealthy physician and 

 patron of science, whose large library and collections passed at 

 his death to the nation, and with the Harleian collection of 

 Manuscripts and the Cottonian Library were the foundation 

 of the British Museum. 



8 LETTER FROM LINNJEUS to his pupil Daniel Charles 

 Solander (1736-1782), lately arrived in England, afterwards 



