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BOTANICAL REFORM. 



who invented the new thermometer; examined with Bernard de 

 JussiEU all the curious plants in the botanical garden; and in a word, 

 every thing which his curiosity could wish to have seen in so short a 

 time. He wrote IoHaller "I have seen here so many public and 

 *' private libraries in natural history, that I am already enabled to pub- 

 " lish a second edition of my Bibliotheca Botanical, since my fresh know- 

 " ledge of books is much greater than it was before." 



Paris, hom its predileftion for Tournefort and Vail l ant, gave 

 but little credit to the botanical reform of LinN ;«:us : " He is a young 

 " enthusiast," they would say, " who confounds all, and whose sole 

 « merit consits in having plunged botany into a state of anarchy *." 

 " Don't laugh, good people," said the French naturalist Guextard, 

 who penetrated deeper than the rest into the spirit of the Linn^an me- 

 thod, " don't laugh at Linn^us, the time will come when he will 

 laugh at you all." A truly pathetic anticipation — for the same young 

 Swede who now afforded them merriment, became afterwards, in de- 

 spite of their sarcastic jokes, the master of his science in France, — and 

 the late royal garden at Trianon was arranged according to his own sys- 

 tem, in preference to that of the French botanists. 



LiNN/Eus was treated in the most friendly, cordial and afFeftionate 

 manner by Bernard de Jussieu, whom he never ceased to corres- 

 pond with. " I heard with pleasure," says Dean Baeck, who was at 

 Pans in 1743, " in what high terms Bernard de Jussieu spoke of 

 *' LiNN^us, whom he always used to greet by the title of our good 

 " friend." 



* C'est un jeune enthousiaste, qui brouille tout, n'a d'autre merite et de gloire, que d'avois 

 mis I'anarchie dans la botunique. 



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