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SECTION VL 



OPPONENTS, AND LITERARY CONTESTS OF LINNAUS. 



BARON HALLER.— FIRST LETTER OF LiNNAUS TO THE BARON.— CONNEXION 

 BETWEEN THESE TWO GREAT MEN.— FRIENDSHIP, RIVALSHIP, AND OPINIONS 

 OF HALLER.— G. E. HALLER, HIS SON, WRITES AGAINST LINN.EUS.— L. HEISTER 

 AT HELMSTADT.— HIS RESENTMENT AGAINST LINN^tUS.— EXCITES HIS PUPIL, 

 PROFESSOR SIEGESBECK, AT l-ETERSBUKG, AGAINST HTM.— AN ACCOUNT OF 

 THIS MAN.— HIS LITIGIOUS WRITINGS.— THEIR RIDICULOUS CONTENTS.— IS RE- 

 FUTED BY GLEDITSCH AND PROFESSOR BROWALLIUS.— HEISTER ENTERS THE 

 LISTS AGAINST LINN^US.— SEEKS TO DISPLAY HIS CELEBRITY BY A WORK OF 

 BURKHARD.— SEXUAL SYSTJiM OF LINN.EUS.— IDEAS OF THE ANCIENTS RESPECT. 

 ING THE SEXES OF PLANTS.— JUNG.— MILLINGTON.—CAMERARIUS AND BURK- 

 HARD.— THE LATTER STARTS IDEAS ON THIS HEAD, WITHOUT SUCCESS.— LI N- 

 NAUS UNACQUAINTED WITH JUNG'S WORKS. — ANECDOTE. — LIST OF THE 

 OTHER PRINCIPAL OPPONENTS OF LINN^US— KLEIN— CRANZ— ALSTON— PO N- 

 TEDERA—SPALLANZANI.—ADANSON— COUNT DE BUFFON.— EXQUISITE POLITE- 

 NESS OF COUNT DE BUFFON TO LINN^US, JUN.— WALLER, A PUBLIC ANTA- 

 GONIST OF LINN.'EUS IN SWEDEN. — PUBLISHES AN ACADEMICAL TREATISE 

 AGAINST HIM.— CONTENTS OF THAT WORK.— TURNS OUT TO THE AUTHOR'S 

 PREJUDICE.— ANECDOTE.— ANYMOUS DEFENCE OF LINN^US.— ITS CONTENTS.— 

 HIS METHOD OF REVENGING HIMSELF ON HIS ADVERSARY.— HIS PRUDENT 

 CONDUCT IN EVERY ATTACK. 



Revo I.UTTONS are never effe£led in the bosom of peace and 

 perfe6l concordance. They occasion convulsions, and these more or 

 less violent storms. Thus it happens in the political world, and still 

 more so in he republican domains of literature, where every one is at 

 liberty to give his vote. In the political world, the triumph of revolu- 

 tions depends on the resolution and superiority of power. Jn the re- 

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