•60 LINN^US. 



SECTION VII. 



LinYKSUs's Occuj)ations from 1750 to 1770. 



Publication of the Philosophia Botanica— General Account of that 

 Work — Linnfeus engaged in arranging the Collections of the 

 Queen and Count Tessin — The Species Plantarum — Sir J. E. 

 Smith's Remarks on it — Quotation from the Preface, with Re- 

 marks — Linncsus 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 tw^o Estates — Delivers private Lectures at his Mu- 

 seura — 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. 



It has been already mentioned that Linnaeus, when 

 residing in Holland, printed a short treatise con- 

 taining his theoretical views respecting the classi- 

 fication of plants. This work, to which he gave 

 the title of Fundamenta Botanica, consisted of a 

 series of aphorisms or propositions, which his friends 

 afterwards repeatedly urged him to demonstrate at 

 length, so as to constitute them into a body of 

 doctrine which might be considered as the code of 

 ]x)tanical science. Accordingly, in 1751, he pub- 

 lished the Philosophia Botanica, one of the most re- 

 markable performances that any age or country can 

 boast of. It consists of 12 chapters, 52 sections, 365 



