OF THE LIFE OF LINN^US. 



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of plants with new and most irrefragable arguments. The motto which 

 he affixed to this treatise, conveyed all the energy of his mind ; it was 

 Famam Extendere Fa^iis — " To* spread fame by deeds." The good 

 cause was triumphant. The Imperial Academy, at their meeting on 

 the 6th of September, adjudged the prize to Linnaeus, and thus did 

 homage to the truth of a system, which Siegesbeck, one of its mem- 

 bers, had with equal acrimony and ignorance formerly endeavoured to 

 destroy. 



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