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PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. 



The botanical gardens in France, England, Spain, &c. are all 

 arranged according to the direftions pointed out in the Lin- 

 N.EAN method. The two keepers of that of Madrid ha.ve 

 published after it the following work : Curso elemental de Bo- 

 tanica, theorico y pradico, dispuesto para la ensenanza del Real 

 Jar din Botanico de Madrid, de or den del Rey, nuestro senor,por e 

 Dr. D. Casimiro Gomez de OrtegajvD. Adtonio Palau 

 y Verdera Catedraticos primer 0 y segundo delmismo Jar din. 

 Madrid, en la imprenta Real, 1785. //. torn. 8 maj. The 

 Termini Botanici of Dr. Gieseke, at Hamburgh, have like- 

 wise been used with advantage in the above work. A similar 

 course of le61ures, according to the Linnean method, has 

 since appeared at Parma, and is the produ6lion of Dr. Giovan 

 Bapt. Cnatteri. 



The L innean Society at Leipsig was founded by- 

 Professor LuDwiG on the 31st of January, 1789. The Lite- 

 rary Journal of that city, written in German by Professor 

 EcK, and published in 1792, gives farther particulars respect- 

 ing the constitutions of that society. 



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