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ture to which he had access were meagre. And it was in his youth 
that most of the great thoughts he later proclaimed were suggested 
to him from observations, and perhaps, as Sachs wants to have it, 
from scholastic deductions. - 
Fortunately we know, both from Linneus’s own notes and jo jou 
nals, and from other sialigiiad records, the names of those botanist 
foreign travels. Thus it is known* that he had not read what 
Camerarius, Ray, Grew, Bradley, and others had-written on the 
doctrine of sexualit cor a i os his first essay on this ee 
matter through a review in Acta 
Eruditorum anno codégaia ablioada (Lipsiz), p. 130, of the | aes, 
‘with which Sebastian Vaillant — “is his lectures at the Royal 
Gardens at Paris on June 10th, 1 
Referring to this address ut Vaillant, eect wrote (p. 39 8) : 
‘“* De Candolle, who assigns to him an important share in developing 
the sexual theory, says that in this aes he propounded the 
sexuality of plants most expressly, and as an acknowledged fact, 
-and that he described very graphically the way in which the anthers 
fertilize the pistil, into which description little that was correct 
probably found its way, since it required Koelreuter, Sprengel, and 
the botanists of quite modern times to clear up this point. Vaillant 
‘therefore can only have the credit of an sian ription of 
what was then accepted. However, De Candolle goes on to say 
what Vaillan t’s discoveries were, and on the following page 
(Physiologie végétale, ii. 503) we read that Linneus confirmed these 
a in the year 1736 in his Fundamenta Botanica, and ma 
‘skilful u “2 them in the year 1735 in laying ate foundations of his 
‘sexual s an .” Sachs considers this opinion of De Candolle and 
other ater ‘statements as a result of ignorance and confusion 
of ideas 
fants tells us in his notes how he was influenced by the ideas 
expressed by Vaillant, and how he began to observe the structure of 
flowers, but he did not make his views known before at the end of 
Cult. Suipend: ia Pretupia SPONSALIORUM romance in sar 
Physiologia earum explicatur, Sexus demonstratur, Modus aera 
tionis detegitur, nec non summa plantarum eguiad nimalibus ana- 
a per under the title ee Plantarum. In this trades 
ts Tr. Raia Bidrag till en lefnadsteckning fver Carl von Linné. Upsala, 
p. 82. 
