74 The LIFE or 



only one who executed his tafk. The benefit of 

 viflting the botanical garden at every hour of 

 /, gave him an opportunity to make the 

 .c accurate obfervations on the buds of trees* 

 iiom whence he drew the mod curious infe- 

 rences, which he publilhed in 1749, in a dhTer- 

 tation de Gemmis arborum. In the year 1 7 50, 

 Dr. Unnceus began to draw up his Philofophia 

 Botanica, but he was attacked by fo violent a fit 

 of the gout, that he was almoft pad all hopes 

 of recovery the difeafe however relenting a 

 little, he dictated the work to Loefiing, who 

 -went on with it as fail as the prefs could go. 

 This buiinefs, was not only amufing to Loefling, 

 but proved very ufeful to him - 3 for he never 

 failed to apply to his tutor for the elucidation of 

 fuch articles as he did not underftan'd, which 

 was readily granted, and thus the pupil became 

 a perfect matter of the Doctor's fyftem and its 

 fpirit. 



Linnaus purfued his grand plan in botany with 

 an undaunted courage and perfeverance in 

 fpite of all the fatigues, obloquy, and ingrati- 

 tude he met with. His difciples were gone to the 

 mod .diftant pans of the globe, and returned 

 loaden with the mod curious difcoveries. Kalm 

 from Canada^ OJbeck from China, Hajjelquifi from 

 Ezxpt, Moreen from Suratte and Montin from 



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