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Holland before he got acquainted with its principal literati and other 

 remarkable objeQs. 



He went from Hardcrwyk to Leyden, which is the first Dutch uni- 

 versity. Having lived too high at Hamburgh, his poverty now con- 

 strained him to hire a garret and live extremely low. At the same 

 time he looked out for friends and acquaintance, and soon found them. 

 Among these were Adrian van Royen*, Professor of Botany; 

 Do6lor, and afterwards Baron van Swieten, one of the oldest and 

 rnost favourite pupils of BoERH A AVE ; young Li eberkuhn from 5er- 

 lin, then a student at Leyden, afterwards celebrated by his accurate 

 microscopic observations and anatomical curiosities ; farther Isaac 

 Lawson, a Scotchman, whose loss like that of Lieberkuhn, the 

 sciences had too early to mourn, and Do6tor John Frederick 

 Gronov, afterwards senator and burgomaster of Leyden. 



The latter, who was also a well versed lover of botany, encouraged 

 and induced Linn^sus to enter the lists as author, in which, having 

 been supported by a concurrence of many favourable circumstances, 

 he soon formed a great and splendid epoch. Among the various writ- 

 ings which he had long ago collefted and projefted in Sweden, he first 

 published the plan or prospeftus of the classical work which became 

 afterwards the universal code of natural history. His Systema 

 Natur/e t appeared on fourteen folio pages. It was the foundation 

 stone of the edifice, which was on subsequent occcasions so symmetri- 

 cally and so beautifully finished and aggrandized by its architect, and 

 enlarged by foreign artists. 



* He was made Professor after Boerhaave, who resigned his Professorship on account 

 of his age, in 1731 ; he was born in 1705, and died in 1779. 



t Systema Naturae, sive regnia tria natures, systematicas proposita, per classes, ordines, 

 genera et species. Lugd. Batav, ilzs- ioWo 14. 



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