14 CONTENTS. 



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

 naeus — Remarks on the Accumulation of Facts produced b}^ their 

 Exertions, Page 251 



SECTION VII. 



LINN^US'S OCCUPATIONS FROM 1750 TO 1770. 



Publication of the Philosophia Botanica — General Account of that 

 Work — Linnaeus engaged in arranging the Collections of tlie 

 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 VIII. 



ACCOUNT OF THE SYSTEBIA NATURJE OF LINNiEUS. 



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 LINN^'EUS. 



Review of the Medical Writingsof Linnjeus— His Materia Medical 

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



