§6 



LINN^US IN HOLLAND. 



Leyden^ and Cliffort at Hartecamp. Though it contained some 

 imperfedions, yet there was not a completer nor better digested reper- 

 tory extant to that period. Linn^us gave in it a system of botanical 

 researches, divided into sixteen classes, extrafted from upwards of 

 looo books, all the materials being systematically arranged. 



The publication of the third work of Linnaeus was occasioned by 

 a rare foreign plant in Cuf fort's garden. This was the banana tree 

 (Musa Paradisica), the blossoms of which had only once or twice ap- 

 peared in Europe. He gave a better and more methodical description 

 of it under the title of Musa Cliffortian a, Florens Hartecampi^ 

 prope Harlemum, Lugd. Batav. forty-six pages in quarto, with two plates, 

 one of which exhibits the whole plant, the other its parts of fruftifica- 

 tion. 



These were the learned productions of the diligence of Linnaeus 

 in 1736. With them was diffused his celebrity; while his innovations 

 attrafted universal notice. But nobody could then suspeft that great 

 revolution which was to subvert the domination of Tournefort, 

 and to hurl down with it so many grandees and plebeians in the 

 republic of botany. The Germans did justice to the egregiousness 

 and merits of our Swede, and the Imperial academy of naturalists at 

 Vienna^ which is one of the most ancient learned bodies, was the first 

 of the foreign societies which admitted him that same year as a fellow- 

 member, under the honourable title of Dioscorides the Second, 

 names which have at all times been customary in that academy, and 

 were made to keep pace with the celebrity of each member. 



The amenities of the summer of 1736 were considerably heightened 

 for Li,NNit:usj by a journey to England, which he undertook towards 



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