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Besides those two Princesses, who did honour to their rare talents and 

 accomplishments, Linn.eus had also friends and correspondents among 

 the fair sex in several countries. Among those at Paris we reckon 

 Madame du Gage de Pommeruil and Mademoiselle Bassport; at 

 London Lady Ann Monson; at Oxford Mrs. Blackburne ; and at 

 New York, in America, he had a most enthusiastic admirer in Miss Col- 

 den. As flattering as the approbation of the fair must have been to 

 him, as gallantly did he acknowledge it. He preserved their names in 

 the vegetable reign, and denominated amongst others, two beautiful 

 plants Monsonia and Coldmia. 



The celebrity of his name and his connexions in all parts of the world, 

 were as much calculated for the advancement of science in general, as 

 ihey proved pleasant to him, and above all, advantageous to the royal 

 botanical garden. The latter became a northern paradise, which dis- 

 played the treasures and curiosities of nature from all quarters of the globe. 

 No where could the student of botany find a more beautiful living re- 

 pertory of science. To send to Linnaeus the seeds of rare or new 

 jplants, was both esteemed an honour and a pleasure. Thus were plants 

 transmitted to him, exclusive of those which he received of the above- 

 Tuentioned persons, from Astrachm and Kamtichatka by M. Demidoff, 

 one of his Russian pupils, who obtained them from the colleflions of the 

 two famous travellers, Steller and Lerche ; from Siberia by Gme- 

 lin; from Egypt and Palestine by the ill-fated Hasselquist; from 

 China by Lagerstroem, Osbeck and Toren; from the island of 

 Java by Bast OR and Kleinhoff; from Tranquebar hy Koenig, one 

 of his pupils; from the Cape oj Good Hope, by his friend Burrmann 

 at Amsterdam^ and by the Dutch governor Tullbagh, and his pupils 



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