PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. 



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satisfadlion of giving them this public testimony of their kind 

 favours. 



In some of the first seftions, on the journey through Dale- 

 carlia, &c. I must beg the reader to compare the annexed 

 Supplements and Notes. Two of them I received at so late 

 a period as to have found it impossible to insert them with my 

 own text. Upon the whole, their authenticity entitled them to 

 a plain and literal communication. In other respetb, it would 

 be an important and meritorious undertaking for any na- 

 turalist to bestow farther labours on the materials which con- 

 tain a full explanation of the hypotheses of LiNN^us,on the 

 subsequent elucidations which either refuted or confirmed them, 

 on the whole and separate parts of his reform, and the progress 

 made after him. The result of such an undertaking would 

 offer an interesting view and comprehensive account of the 

 formation and improvement of natural science since the epoch 

 of our great luminary. 



With regard the annexed list of the writings of Linnaeus, 

 I have neither spared labour nor trouble to render it it as com- 

 plete and as satisfa£l;ory as possible. In point of the academi- 

 cal treatises, I have mentioned those only which have received 

 translations or commentaries. The motto beneath the por- 

 trait of Linn ^us, which has been drawn from a most striking 

 impression in plaster of Paris, will not, it is humbly presumed, 

 offend the religious opinions of any reader. It originates with 



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