PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. 



assistance than by my own feeble exertions. In justice to 

 them, I find it incumbent on me to name here the following 

 conspicuous perfons : 



The Chevalier Thunberg, of Upsal, successor of Linn^us 

 in his academical dignity. 



Doftor A. O. Knoes, of the same University, who commu- 

 nicated to me the rare and valuable apology of Linn^us, 

 and his letter to the Academy of Sciences at Paris, 



James Edward Smith, M. D. and F. R. S. proprietor of the 

 LiNNEAN Colleftions, and President of the Linnean So- 

 ciety of London. 



Charles Niebuhr, Counsellor Justiciary of his Danish Ma- 

 jesty, and travelling companion of the celebrated Forskal. 



P. D. Gieseke, Doftor and Professor at Hamburgh, 



Francis Ehrhart, Botanist, at Herre7ihausen, near Hano-- 

 ver. 



Nemnich, L.L. D. of Hamburgh, Editor of the Catholicon or 

 the Encyclopedic Di6iionary in all the European languages, 

 who has communicated to me several fafts in the Spanish, 

 and Portuguese tongues. 



Doftor E. C. ScHULTz, of the same place.. 



Dodor S R at H—. 



To these are to be added two friends at Stockholm, and two 



eminent German literati, who would not leave to gratitude the 



2- satisfaHion 



