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LINNtEUS in HOLLAND. 



belonged to the species of bays. We examined other flowers ; he 

 objefted, but I refuted his objections, and persuaded him. At last, 

 he asked me ; " Will you help me in my Ceylon colleftion ? Will and 

 " can you s,X.zy dX Amsterdavi ?" Linn-£us informed him that bis poverty 

 rendered it absolutely impossible. Burmann had already grown 

 so fond of him and his acquirements, that he generously offered to 

 'board and lodge him in his own house, free from all expence. 



LiNNiEUs, enlivened with the hope of making perhaps his for- 

 tune in Holland^ and delighted with a situation which could pro- 

 cure him so many opportunities of enlarging the knowledge which had 

 been constantly the objeft of his exertions, accepted with gratitude the 

 hospitable offer. Though fortune offered him no settled prospers, yet 

 he could return to Sweden in spring with both more advantage and 

 greater convenience. He entered the house of Burmann, where he 

 found a considerable coUedion of natural curiosities, and what was 

 more valuable still, a sele£l library of books relative to botany and 

 natural history in general. These became of service in the completion 

 of several of his works, among which was comprised his Botanical 

 Library ( Bibliotheca BotanicaJ, published by him three years after, and 

 dedicated to the friend who had shown him so much kindness. He 

 found an opportunity partly to requite those favours to the son of Bur- 

 mann, who studied under him at Upsal, in the year 1759, and in- 

 herited the dignity and fame of his father. Among the many distin- 

 guished members of Burmann's family, we deem it proper to mention 

 the meritorious Philologist Peter Burmann, who was a son of the 

 proteftorof LiNN.£us. 



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