we LINN.EUS. 
edition in the year 1766, which is an epitome of 
the vegetable kingdom, to which the mineral 
kingdom was added ina third volume. We can 
readily pardon (says his learned biographer, Sir 
E. Smith,) the self-complacency of its author 
‘“‘a work to which natural history never had a 
fellow.’’ We may venture to predict, as this was 
the first performance of the kind, it will certainly 
be the last. The science of natural history has 
now become so vast that no man can ever take 
the lead again as a universal naturalist. 
Though Linnzeus declares in his diary that he 
gave up the general practice of physic on his es- 
tablishment at Upsala, attending only his friends 
and the poor, he appears to have ever paid great 
attention to that noble and intricate science. His 
lectures on medicine, dietetics and animal econ- 
omy, were in high repute, and though undoubt- 
edly a great, sagacious observer in every depart- 
ment of nature, he was in this somewhat too 
theoretical, and when he applies his own didactic 
talents to illustrate medica] theories, or anything 
else, he is always ingenious and as luminous as 
the subject will allow. His curious little ‘‘ Clavis 
Medicine,” published in 1766, and his ‘‘ Genera 
Morborum,”’ which appeared three years before, 
are not only striking but instructive. 
Notwithstanding the relief which Linnzeus ex- 
perienced by the assistance of his son, he contin- 
ued his public activity till two years before his 
