LINN.EUS IN HOLLAND. 85 



In the beginning of the spring 1736, Linnaeus went to the villa of 

 Hartecamp, where he passed so many glorious and pleasant hours. 

 There study was his greatest delight. Surrounded by treasures from 

 all quarters of the globe, a great part of which he had never seen 

 before, encircled with a most seleft and valuable library devoted to his 

 use; uncontrouled in all his arrangements; seconded by a patron 

 equally beneficent, and ready to procure every thing which could be 

 either missing or wished for; plants, good living, JLeyden, Amsterdam^ 

 and Harlem in proximity — how could Linn^,us, thus situated, wish 

 for a more charming and more advantageous situation any where else ! 

 In this Paradise, as he cafled it, the great projefts he had conceived were 

 brought to maturity. Hesitating, whether he should dedicate his ser- 

 vices to yEscuLAPius or to Flora, he resolved to consecrate them 

 wholly to the latter. 



When he sojourned at Amsierdam, he finished a small work which he 

 had begun while a student at Upsal, and which was considered as the har- 

 binger of his reform. It consisted of his Fundamenta Botanica ywhich 

 appeared in 1736, on 35 pages in twelves. The theory of the science 

 of botany was reduced by it to 365 aphorisms, and he displayed in these 

 the basis of his new system. Fifteen years after the same work ap- 

 peared, augmented with elucidations, and a description of the parts of 

 plants, and their technical terms, under the title of Philosophia Bota- 

 nica. 



Nearly at the same time, when this elementary book appeared, 

 LiNNA-us published his Biblictheca Botanica {\n 153 pages in twelves), 

 for the peifedion of which he stood chiefly indebted to the libraries of 

 Spreckelsen 2X Hamburgh, B\j km. at Amsierdam, Gronov at 

 3 Lejydcn, 



