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and literally ran away till he reached the Thames, and 

 landed safely in London without being caught. Thus the 

 Linnaean collection came to England, and is now in Bur- 

 lington House. The Swedes are naturally sorry that it left 

 their country, but on the other hand it has become more 

 known to scientific men in London than it could ever have 

 been in Stockholm. With Linnaeus we must end for the 

 present the history of the sciences relating to living beings. 

 Early in the nineteenth century we shall return to them 

 again, but in the next chapter we must learn something of a 

 new science which arose about this time ; namely, the 

 science of ' Geology,' or the study of the earth. 



Chief Works consulted. — Jardine's * Naturalists' Library,' vols. ii. and 

 xiii. ; Brewster's 'Encyclopaedia' — ' Buffon and Linnaus;' Cuvier, 

 • Histoire des Sciences Naturelles ;' Smith, Sir J., 'Introduction to 

 Botany ; ' Pulteney's ' View of Writings of Linnreus ; ' Linnaeus, 

 *Systema Naturae.' 



