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fame : and of Magr.ol and LiNN^^^uSj on the cup 

 of the flower. After thefe follow LiNNi^:us's 

 fexual fyftem, and his fragments of the natural 

 method. We fay nothing of the arrangement of 

 particular clalTes, fuch are the compqfite flowers, the 

 tmhelliferous plants, the graminaceous^ the ferns^ &C. 

 A very large index, referring to every genm in 

 each fyftem, concludes the volume. 



LiNNiEus, whiift in Holland^ fuftained a very 

 fevere lofs in the premature death of his friend 

 and fellow ftudenc Artedi \ with whom, as has 

 been before obferved, he had contra6i:ed the firmeft 

 friendfhip whiift they refided at Upfal \ infomuch 

 that they had, in cafe of death, mutually be- 

 queathed to each other their manufcripts and 

 coliedions in natural hiftory. Artedi had been 

 particularly afllduous in arranging anew, and 

 defcribing all fuch fifties as had fallen under his 

 . own infpedion \ and had taken a voyage to Eng^ 

 land in 1734, to give more perfedlion to his plan. 

 ^ Our author, after his death, procured, though with 

 fome difliculty, all Artedi's papers, and put the 

 finiftiing hand to them, and publiftied them at 

 Leyden in 1738, in odtavo, under the title of 

 Petri Artedir^ Sued Medici^ Ichthyologia : five 

 opera omnia de pifcihus^ fcilicet Bibliotheca Ichtbyo- 

 logica Philofophia Ichthyologica \ Genera Pifcium ; 

 Synonymia Specierum ; Defcriptiones Specierum, Om» 

 Hia in hoc genere perfe^iora quam antea ulla, Poft- 

 hima vindicavit^ recognovit^ cooptavit^ et edidit^ Caro- 

 lus LiNNi^us. In this work fifties are arranged 

 in an entire new method, and which our author 

 adbpted with little or no variadon, and continued 



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