CONTENTS. 



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SECTION IV. 



A SHORT HISTORY OF BO T J NY. 



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Among the Greeks — ■Tleophrastm^ the father of Bot.iny — Hippocrates — 

 Dioscondes — Among the Romans — Pliny — .View of the progress of Bo- 

 tany — Obstacles — Want of systematical division — Fate of this science in the 

 middle age — Its regeneration in the fifteenth century by the Germans — Brun- 

 fels — •Bock — Sixteenth Century — Conrad Gesner^ the father of mo- 

 dern Botany and natural History — His singular destiny — ^Cultivation of the 

 botanical gardens — Botanical excursions — The Germans are the first that 

 published Flora-, or Colledtions of the Plants of certain countries — Clusius-y 

 the greatest botanical Tourist in the xvith century — Affluence of botanical 

 materials — Want of a system — Casalpifzi, an Italian, forms one — Caspar 

 Bauhiriy a Swiss, the first universal writer on Botany, in the xviith cen- 

 tury — Professor Jungius — Various travels tending to promote Natural His- 

 tory — Morison and Ray., Engliftimen, the first authors of modern systems — . 

 Rivinies and others — Toumefort^thQ modern legiflator in Botany — Accounts 

 respefting him and his system — Faillant his pupil, makes ingenious observa- 

 tions on the genera or sexes of plants. 4.^ 



SECTION V. 



Linnam goes to Holland — His residence at Hamburgh — Jirnisch-, KohU 

 Spreckehen — .The seven-headed serpent of the latter — Linncsm proves it 

 to be no phenomenon — .Takes his degrees as doftor of medicine at Har- 

 derwyk — His dissertation of inauguration — Goes to Leyden — His ac- 

 quaintance with Van Royen^ Van Swieten, Lieherkuhn and Gronov — Publishes 

 his Systema Naturae — Waits on Boerkaave — Biographical Strictures — . 

 Anecdotes — Linnaus resolves to return to Sweden by Amsterdam — 

 Gets acquainted there with J. Burtnann — Anecdote — Linnaiis stays 

 with Burmann — Works in his bctajiical Library — Is recommended by 

 Boerhaave to C/zj^ri, Burgomafter of Amsterdam — Is charged to arrange the 

 botanical garden at Hartecamp — Anecdotes — Accepts of the ofi'er — His 

 happy condition — Meets unexpeftedly with his friend Jrtedi — Tragical exit 

 of the latter — Linnaus rescues his fame from oblivion — His residence at 

 Hartecamp — His works in the beginning of 1736 — ^Commencement of the 



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