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eftablifti feveral public inftitutions in favour of 

 this ftudy, and even profeflbrfliips eftablilhed in 

 divers univerfities for the fame purpofe, which 

 do honour to their founders and patrons, and 

 which have excited a curiofity for the fcience, 

 and a fenfe of its worth, that cannot fail to further 

 its progrefs, and in time raife'it to that rank, which 

 it is entitled to hold among the purfuits of man- 

 kind. 



Were it in our power minutely to defcribe the 

 perfon of our author, in conformity to the cuftom 

 of biographers, it would be a matter of fmall mo- 

 pient, as the endowments of his mind, and his 

 great talents, have fo fuperior a claim to atten- 

 tion. In the commemoration-fpeech, delivered 

 by his friend Dr. B^ck^ phyfician to the king 

 of SiJ^eden, Linn^us's ftature is defcribed 



being diminutive \ his head large ; hig 

 " look ardent, piercing, and apt to daunt the 



beholder. His ear not fenfible to mulic ; his 

 " temper quick ; his rnemory good, though in 

 " the latter period of his life liable to fail him fome- 



times ; his knowledge of languages confined^ 

 " yet no interefting difcovery efcaped him. In 

 " fummer he ufed to fleep from ten to three 

 ^- o'clock, in winter from nine to fix, and ipftantly 



to ceafe from his labours when he found him- 

 " felt not well difpofed for them. He was an 

 ^' agreeable companion, of quick fenfibility, but 



eafily appeafed.*' Thofe who would be gra- 

 tified by forming an idea of his perfon, may 

 \>t acquainted, that there are extant three half- 

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