ADVERTISEMENT 



AS the 'Writer of this volume could not, for very 

 obvious reafons, entertain the moft diftant inten- 

 tion of ftanding forth the profefled Biographer of LiN- 

 NiEUS, he wifties to preclude any undue expectations, by 

 obferving that, the few memoirs relating to the life of 

 this celebrated ProfefTor, which will be found inter- 

 fperfed in the firft part of this VieWy were almoft wholly 

 collected from LiNNJEUs's own writings, and other printed 

 works ; and ferve, principally, to relieve the tedioufnefs of 

 a bare account of books, and to connect in a better man- 

 ner the feries and occafion of his publications. He re- 

 grets that his fources of intelligence have no^t been fuf- 

 ficiently copious to enable him to render thefe memoirs 

 more equal to his wifhes, and more worthy the accept- 

 ance of the public. To thofe who are converfant with 

 the wbrks of LiNNiEUS, he is perfectly aware that thefe 

 pages can afford but little amufement and ftill lefs in- 

 formation, and can have no merit in their eye, beyond 

 that of recalling to their remembrance, a fucceffion of 

 faCts and obfervatioris, with which they were before ac- 

 4quainted. They will, however, concur with him in 

 wifhing to difFufe the knowledge of the writings of fo 

 great a mafter, and in endeavouring to excite an emula- 

 tion in younger minds, for that fcience which they cul- 

 tivate. 



All the works of Linnjeus, as far as they have come 

 to the Author's knowledge, are noticed in the fucceeding 

 pages; but, as moft of them were fubfervient to his 

 great objed the System ^/Nature, the outlines oi th^t 

 work bear a principal part in this View of his writings. 



The Classification <?/ Diseases, is but a fmall 

 prt of his works 5 yet, as LiNNiEUs was an early writer 



on 



