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CONTENTS. 



reform of Botany — Is received a member of the Imperial Academy of Natu- 

 ralifts at Vienna — Goes over to England — Sir Hans Sloane^ Bart. — 

 Ph. Miller^ Botanist at London ; and Professor D'lllenius at Oxford — Re- 

 ception — Anecdotes — Account of Dillenlus — Linnaus forms several other 

 connexions — Returns to Holland — His zeal of reform — His herculean la- 

 bours — His works in 1737 — Sensations and refutations occasioned by 

 hem — Opinions on his works by Professor Liidivig and the celebrated "J, 

 y. Rousseau — Offer made to him to go as physician to Surinam — 

 He proposes his friend Bartsch — Unhappy end of the latter — Lin- 

 natis goes to Leyden — Is attacked with the home-sicknefs — Leaves 

 Hartecamp — Subsequent decline of this place — Fan Royen — Linnaus be- 

 comes the author of the latter's System of Botany — Anecdotes — •Linnceus 

 publiflies the Ichthyology of Jrtedi— The Dutch are the first who do homage 

 to his reform — Linnaus longs to see again his country — His illnefs — Its 

 caufes — His vain resolution of making a tour in Germany — Takes a trip to 

 Paris — His acquaintance in that capital — Is elefted corresponding member of 

 the French Academy of Sciences — Anecdotes — His return to Sweden. 



SECTION VL 



Opponents and literary contests of Linnaus — Baron Haller — First letter of 

 LinncEUS to the Baron — .Connexion between these two great men — Friend- 

 flilp, rivalfliip, and opinions of Haller — The younger Baron Haller writes 

 against Linnaus — Lawrence Heister at Helmstaedt — His resentment againft 

 Linnceus — Excites Professor Siegesheck at Petersburgh againft him — An ac- 

 count of this man — His contentious writings — Their ridiculous contents — 

 Is refuted' by Gleditsch-, and Doflor Broivallius of Abo — Heister enters 

 the lists againft Linnceus — Seeks to destroy his celebrity by a work of 

 Burkhard — Sexual system of Linnaus — Ideas of the ancients respedl- 

 ing the genera of plants — Jungius — Sir Ihomas Millington — Camerarius 

 and Burkhard — The latter starts ideas on this head, yet without .^ny 

 success — Linnaus was unacquainted with Jungius's v/orks — Anecdote — 

 A list of the other principal opponents of Linnaus — -Klein^ Cranz-, Alston^ 

 Pontedera^ Andanson^ Count de Bvffon^ &c. — Exquisite politeness of Buffon 

 to the younger Linnam — ^Vallerius, the public antagonist of Linnaus in Swe- 

 den— Publifkes an academical treatise against him — The contents of . that 



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