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natural history, is the bearer of this letter. I recommend him in the 

 " strongest manner to you and to your kindness." 



SIR HANS SLOANE, BART. P. R. S. 



In a Letter to Linnaeus, December 1737- 



" I am so uncommonly pleased with your Flora Lapponica.^ that I 

 « very much wish to see the other parts of the natural history of that 

 « country completed, and publicly described by you *." 



DILLENIUS, 



In a Letter to Linn^us, dated August 18, 1737: 



" Your Flora Lapponica I have received, seen, and read with great 

 « pleasure. I wish to God we had more such Floras brought forth 

 « with similar diligence and care. In this you have shewn that you 

 " are the mant." 



DE SAUVAGES, 



In a Letter to Linn^us, the celebrated Restorer of Natural History, 

 dated Septem.ber 10, 1737- 



",J congratulate you myself, and the learned world, and heartily re- 

 « joice at your having undertaken labours so extensive and momen- 

 " tous. But I am astonished, and can hardly see how so young a man 

 " as you could publish so many and such various works, a single one 



* Flora Lapponica speciatim mihi tantopere arridit, ut maxime cupiam, cacteras illius re- 

 gionis partes Historia Naturalis intueri tua exaratus manu, publiceque luci dataa. 



•}■ Vidi accepi et legi Floratn tuam ( Lappontcam ) muha cum voluptate ; utinam plures 

 istius modi nobis prostarcnt, tali studio et cura elaboratse ; in hac te virum prsestitisti. 



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