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SECTION V. 



■LINN^US GOES TO HOLLAND.—HIS RESIDENCE AT HAMBURGH.— JAENISCH, KOHL, 

 SPRECKELSEN. — THE SEVEN HEADED SERPENT OF THE LATTER._LI NN^.US 

 PROVES IT TO BE NO PHCENOMENON.— HE IS SUDDENLY FORCED TO QUIT HAM- 

 BURGH.— TAKES HIS DEGREE AS DOCTOR AT HARDERWYK.— HIS DISSERTA- 

 TION OF INAUGURATION.— GOES TO LEYDEN.— HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH 

 VAN ROYEN, VAN SWIETEN, LIEBERKUHN, AND GRONOV.— PUBLISHES HIS SY- 

 STEMA NATURE.— WAITS ON BOERH AAVE.— BIOGRAPH IC AL STRICTURES.— 

 ANECDOTES.— LINN^US RESOLVES TO RETURN TO SWEDEN BY AMSTERDAM.— 

 GETS ACQUAINTED HERE WITH J. BURMANN.— ANECDOTE.— LINN^US STAYS 

 WITH BURMANN.— WORKS IN HIS BOTANICAL LIBRARY.— IS RECOMMENDED 

 BY BOERHAAVE TO CLIFFORD, BURGOMASTER OF AMSTERDAM.— IS CHARGED 

 TO ARRANGE TH^: BOTANICAL GARDEN AT HARTECAMP.— ANECDOTES.— AC- 

 CEPTS THE OFFER.— HIS SALARY.— MEETS UNEXPECTEDLY WITH HIS FRIEND 

 ARTEDI.— TRAGICAL EXIT OF THE LATTER.— LIN NyEUS RESCUES HIS FAME 

 FROM OBLIVION.— HIS RESIDENCE AT HARTECAMP.— HIS WORKS IN THE BE- 

 GINNING OF 1736.— COMMENCEMENT OF THE REFORM OF BOTANY.— IS RE- 

 CEIVED A MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF NATURAL HISTORY AT 

 VIENNA.— GOES OVER TO ENGLAND.— SIR HANS SLOANE.— MILLER.— PROFESSOR 

 DILLENIUS AT OXFORD.— RECEPTION.— ANECDOTES.— ACCOUNT OF DILLENIUS. 

 — LINN^US FORMS SEVERAL OTHER CONNECTIONS.— RETURNS TO HOLLAND.— 

 HIS ZEAL OF REFORM.— HIS HERCULEAN LABOURS.— HIS WORKS IN 1737.— 

 SENSATIONS AND REFUTATIONS OCCASIONED BY THEM.— OPINION ON HIS 

 WORKS BY PROFESSOR LUDWIG AND THE CELEBRATED JEAN JACQUES ROUS- 

 SEAU.— OFFERS MADE TO HIM TO GO AS PHYSICIAN TO SURINAM.— HE PRO- 

 POSES HIS FRIEND BARTSCH.— MELANCHOLY END OF THE LATTER.— LINN^US 

 GOES TO LEYDEN.— IS ATTACKED BY THE HOME-SICKNESS.— LEAVES HARTE- 

 CAMP.— SUBSEQUENT DECLINE OF THAT PLACE.— VAN ROYEN ANECDOTE.— 

 LINN^US BECOMES THE AUTHOR OF THE SYSTEM OF BOTANY PUBLISHED BY 

 THE .LATTER.— PUBLISHES ARTEDI'S ICHTHYOLOGY.— THE DUTCH ARE THE 

 FIRST WHO DO HOMAGE TO HIS REFORM.— LI NN/EUS LONGS AFTER HIS COUN- 

 TRY.— HIS ILLNESS— ITS CAUSES— HIS VAIN RESOLUTION OF MAKING A TOUR 

 IN GERMANY.— HE TAKES A TRIP TO PARIS.— HIS ACQUAINTANCE IN THAT 

 CAPITAL.— IS ELECTED A CORRESPONDENT MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACA- 

 DEMY OF SCIENCES AT PARIS.— ANECDOTES.— HIS RETURN TO SWEDEN. 



Having spent his winter months in visiting his friends and rela- 

 latives, in preparing his academical dissertations, and arranging the 

 colleftions of his materials of reform, which he considered as his most 

 valuable treasures, Linn^us began in April, 1735, his travels to 



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