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Revue Gencrale des Ecrits de Linne ; Ouvrage dans le quel on trbuve 

 I'es Anecdotes les plus intcressantes de sa vie privee., un abrtge de ses sys- 

 temes et de ses ouvrages, &c. parR. Pulteney, traduit de I Anglais par 

 L. A. Mill IN dc Grandmaison; avcc des notes et des additions du 

 Tradu^eur ; a Londres et d Paris, 1789, Vol. i. three hundred and 

 eighty-six pages ; VoL 11. Jour hundred pages, small Zvo. The most in- 

 teresting Anecdotes from his private Life, mentioned in the title, it woidd 

 he in vain for us to look after in the present work, unless we choose to take 

 for such those given by Prof essor Fabricius, which the Translator has 

 partly copied in the Second Volume, from page one hundred and seventy-six 

 to page one hundred and eighty-three, from another French work entitled 

 Melanges de la Litterature Etrangere. The original and translation 

 might both have been, very successful, had the Swedish Commemoration 

 Speech and the German Authors been consulted. The Supplements of M. 

 de Gr AN DM Aisoiv, to the Second Volume of his work, from page one 

 hundred and seven to two hundred and sixteen, are valuable as Botanical 

 and Literary documents, but replete with errors and false chronological 

 dates. To the Extra^ made by Dr. Pulteney from the seven volumes of 

 Amoenitat. Academ. the French Translator has added the substance of 

 Tom. viii. and ix. published by the Aulic Counsellor Schreber. It is 

 asserted that Dr. Smith of London, has communicated several Anecdotes 

 to the Editor, but this assertion, lam authorised to assure my Readers, is 

 totally unfounded. 



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