OF THE LIFE OF LINN^US. 197 



the seventh and last in 1769. Disputations were held under him till 

 the year 1776. 



The Aulic Counsellor Schreber of Erlangen, one of the greatest of 

 his pupils, who blended the fame of his master with his own, arro- 

 gated to himself the merit of coUefting the scattered and unknown dis- 

 sertations, treatises and speeches of Linn^us, with the writings of his 

 son. He published those valuable archives of natural history, and 

 augmented the Amcenitates Academicce from seven to ten volumes. It 

 may justly be maintained, that there never was a professor of the age 

 under whom a series of disputations was held, more distinguished than 

 the above for originality, genuine discoveries, and rich scientific con- 

 tributions*. In the seven parts of the Linn.ean colleftions, there 

 are altogether 150 treatises, the number of which, with more modern 

 additions, has been augmented to tioo huncb'ed. Fourteen of them con- 

 tain descriptions and lists of the flowers and plants of various coun- 

 tries and distriQst. Thirty extend to certain genera and species of 

 plants, and the remainder treat of the natural philosophy and history of 

 botany, and a great number of them boast of medical, zoological, and 

 lithological contents. 



During his residence in Holland, Linn.eus had already given a con- 

 cise theory of systematic botany in the work entided Fundajiienta Bo- 

 tallica, and completed afterwards several additional chapters in his aca 



• LiNNJEUS presided during t"he whole of his academical career at iS6 disputations. 

 Wallerius at 194, the Chevalier Ihre at 453, and professor Akermann at 5 iC— See 

 J. H. Liden's Catologus disputationum, in Academiis et GMiinasiis Suecias lutbitariini, 

 quotquot hue usque reperiri potuerunt, Vpsal, 1778. 



+ Flora Anglica, Alpina, Palsestina, Monspeliensis, Danica, Caperisis, Jamaicensi?, Belgica, 

 Ackervensis, (Count Tessins Villa), Rybuiensis, (a village in Sudermania), Plants: 

 Surinamenses, Camtchatcenses, Africans, Herbarium Amboinen'De. 



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