PANEGYRISTS OF LINN^US. 135 



*' so many valuable works. I hear that the Herrmanian garden at 

 " Leyden is also arranged according to your system. To speak candidly, 

 " you are a real Charles XII. in natural history ; yet with this diffe- 

 " rence, that you have subjugated the botanical world for ever," 



BARON ALBRECHT HALLER 



In six letters to Linnaeus, from April 14, 1737, to the 9th of 

 January, 1738, calls him an excellent and true — nay, the first, greatest, 

 most eminent, and most accurate, botanist. 



In a Letter Linn^us, April 7, 1738 : 



" What do you care for Siegesbegk! Was there ever a man, who 

 " embarked in a new and grand enterprize unenvied? Is there not 

 " plenty of great charafters who do justice to your merits ? Did you 

 "ever hope to please every one, even the Siegesbecks ? Cheer 

 " up and presevere, continue to embellish the sciences in which you 

 " have acquired so much real celebrity." 



H ALLER in his AEl. Germ. Erudit. Page 288. 



« We feel pleasure to premise, that there has never a been book 

 « written in this science, which can be compared with the Genera 

 " Plantarum of Lin n iEU s. Its whole plan is unborrowed, unattempted, 

 " and original. It is built on the strictest examination of 8000 plants, 

 " But what LiNMAUS has done none has ever attempted or thought 

 «of." 



GLEDJTSCh\ 



