128 OPPONENTS OF LINN.EUS. 



This great man in the violence of his attacks and criticisms, was 

 chiefly hurried away by jealousy. His ambition also induced him to 

 behold, even the fame of Haller, with an envious eye. Notwith- 

 standing this, he revered the greatness of Linnaeus, and honoured his 

 memory. He gave a convincing proof of his respeft to Linn>eus 

 the younger. In 1782 the latter came to Paris, where the Count gave 

 him a most cordial reception. The royal cabinet of natural history was 

 shut aknost to every body; but Buffon shewed him all that was 

 remarkable ; and on his expressing a wish to see the royal botanical 

 garden, he wrote to Lin n^cus, jun. — that on that day he zvould be spoke 

 to by none but him. 



Even Sweden did not want for persons who envied the good fortune 

 and greatness of Linn^us. His only open and avowed enemy in 

 that country was John Wallerius, the great mineralogist, who 

 died in 1785. In the year 1741 he published an academical treatise 

 at Upsal, which was entirely levelled at Linn ^us*. He laid down 

 twenty propositions, in which several assertions and representations 

 of LiNN^us, in his System of Nature, in the Flora of Lapland, in 

 his Dissertation on Cold Fevers, and in a treatise inserted in the tran- 

 saftions of the academy of Stockholm, were treated with ridicule. He 

 began with the thesis, that man cannot be classed among the quadru- 

 peds. Then follows a critique on the Linn^an division of the 



* This treatise, which is extremely rare, and ahnost entirely unknown in every part of 

 Europe except Saveden, has been communicated to the author by Mr. Ehrhardt, botanist 

 to his Britanic Majesty in Hano'ver. The author has since inserted it in the following 

 work, which he published at Hamburgh in 1792, in 8vo. — " Colleftio Epistolarum Carol. 

 " A LiNNE ad Viros CI. scriptarum ; accedunt opuscula pro et contra Linn^eum scripts, 

 <* extra Sueciam rarissima." 



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