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secretly rejoiced at his success; while he excited 

 partisans every where to wage war against the sexual 

 system. Other adversaries started -up in Germany, 

 France, and various parts of E urope. The only open 

 antagonist whom he had in his own country was the 

 celebrated Wallerius, the mineralogist ; in order to 

 counteract whose unfair criticisms he published a 

 pamphlet entitled Orbis Eruditi Judicium de Car, 

 Linnsei^M.D.Scriptis, — The Judgment of the Learn- 

 ed World on the Writings of Charles Linnaeus, M.D. 

 This is the only defence that he ever made of him- 

 self, and the only work which he published anony- 

 mously. It contained merely a short sketch of his 

 life, a list of the books published by him, and testi- 

 monials and opinions of celebrated individuals re- 

 specting his merits. Whatever vexation these at- 

 tacks may have given him, they had no permanent 

 influence, and he had the happiness of triumphing 

 over all opposition. With reference to the attacks 

 of Siegesbeck, he thus writes from Hartecamp to 

 Haller:— 



" I have received from a friend Professor Sieges- 

 beck's Verioris Botanosophiae Specimen, with his 

 Epicrisis on my writings. This author has been 

 very hard upon me. I wish he had written these 

 things when I w^as first about publishing. I might 

 have learned when young, what I am forced to learn 

 at a more advanced age, to abstain from writing, to 

 observe others, and to hold my tongue. What a 

 fool have I been, to waste so much time, to spend 

 my days and nights in a study which yields no 

 better fruit, and makes me the laughing-stock of all 

 the world! His arguments are nothing; but his 

 book is filled with exclamations, such as I never 



