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In the fpring of the year 1772, Dr. Murray^ 

 Frofeflbr of Phyfic and Botany at Gottingen^ a 

 Swede by birth, who had been educated under 

 LiNN^us, and had long enjoyed a great ftiare of 

 his confidence and efteem, paid his Preceptor 

 a vifit : he found his faculties unimpaired, and 

 his ardor for the improvement of fcience as ftrong 

 And vigorous as ever: He fpeaks with great de- 

 light of the fatisfadlion he received from his com- 

 pany, and in the contemplation and infpe6lion of 

 his mufeum at Hammarhy ; but regretted much to 

 find, that Linn^us had no farther thoughts of 

 publifhing a new edition of his Syfiem of Nature ; 

 purpofing only to give a fupplement. However, 

 before Dr. Murray left Upfal^ he prevailed on him 

 to promife that he would tranfmit to him his ad- 

 ditional obfervations to the Syftema Vegetabilium^ 

 in order to enable him to give a complete edition 

 of that work. This the Profeffor did j and Dr. 

 Murray performed it in the year 1774, very much 

 to the fatisfadion of all who purfue the Linn^ean 

 method. The manufcript additions communica- 

 ted on this occafion by our author, together with 

 thofe coile6led from the feveral Addenda^ and from 

 the Mantife^ enabled Dr. Murray to extend this 

 volume to above one hundred pages beyond that 

 ,of the 1 2th edition publifhed in 1767. 



It appears thatLiNN^us, upon the whole, • en- 

 joyed a good conftitution. At times, however, he 

 had been feverely afflidted with an hemicrania \ and 

 had not been exempted from the gout. How 

 much he fuffered from this latter diftemper^ w^e 



have 



