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system — ^VaN RoYEN, GrONOV. FERBER,BROWALtIUS,GLEDITSCH, 



afterwards communicates all the printed or written epistolary opinions 

 and attestations given respcfting him by twenty learned men. 



Among these arc the most eminent botanists, and some men of the 

 most distinguished celebrity in their respeftive science, namely, five 

 Dutchmen, professor John Van Gorter at Harderwyk, Herman 

 B0ERHAAVF.5VAN Roy en, Gronov and BuRMANNat Amsterdam; — 

 four British literati, Sir Hans Sloan e, Bart, president of the royal 

 society of sciences at I,<77iio?Zj professor Dillenius at Oxford, and the 

 two physicians Lawson and Donnel Jacob j — four Frenchmen, the 

 celebrated pathalogist and botanist De Sauvages at Montpellier, A, 

 Jussieu of Paris, professor Barrere at Perpignan, and professor 

 Gravel at Strasbourg ; — two Swiss, Baron Albrecht Haller and 

 John Gesner; — and five Germans, J. Gleditsch of Berlin, Dr. 

 Breyne of Dantzick, professor Lance of counsellor Otto 



Menken dX Leipsic, and professor Kohl of Hamburgh. We deem it 

 important to insert here the substance of the most remarkable of these 

 testimonials. 



VAN GORTER* 



Was the promoter of Linn ^us. When he took up his degree of 

 do6lor of physic, Van Gorter expressed himself thus in the diploma : 

 " The undersigned does certify, that he has remarked in the learned 

 " Swede, now doftor of physic, Charles Linn iEUs, uncommon know- 



, * He was also some time first physician to the court of Russia^ and died in 1762. His son 

 i David held the same office, and died in 1783. 



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