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Ae honour of his name, in 1770. Thus was be (comprismg the otiifr 

 scientific bodies mentioned before) member of twenty academies, 

 namely, three in Siaeden, three in Germany^ one in Szvitzerland, two 

 in Holland^ three in France^ three in England, three in Italy, one m 

 Den7nark, and one in America. 



From the river Neva to the Togus in Europe, and in every other 

 part of the world where Nature had friends, the works of Linn ^. us 

 became the compass of the study of natural history. When a 

 great number of reforms were introduced in the year 1771 at the 

 university of Coimbra in Portugal, under the direftion of the Mar- 

 quis DE PoMBAL, the royal ordinance issued for that purpose expressly 

 stated, " That the works of LiNN.tus should be the pattern and basis 

 « of all botanical leQures, because he was the best and greatest autlior 

 <' in that science." A similar change took place in the Spanish univer- 

 sities*. If we quoted these two countries as examples, instead of any 

 other, we did it because the scientific atchievements of the rest of 

 Europe, penetrate so seldom, or at least so late and with, so much diffi- 

 culty beyond the Pyrenees. 



Thus LiNN.^us reaped most plentifully those laurels which were 

 the end and just due of his long and studious perseverance. The ter- 

 mination of his career now formed the finest contrast with its beginning. 

 After having crossed so many thorny paths, he obtained the seat of ho- 

 nour and enjoyed peaceful fortune. His was the joy, to see in the year 



* The Spanish professor of botany, A. Capdevila, writes on this head to Baron Haller 

 in 1772 as follows : "In physiologicis per illustrem Halle rum ; in botanicis Carolum 

 LiNN^UM sequimur. Tournefortii rei Herbarix Institiitiones, et Caroli Linnjei Phi- 

 losophiam Bonanieam legimus et relegimiis ; hanc praeferimus illis ob suramam dodirinam et 

 eruditionem eximiam.— S^/wo/^p aJ Hallerum, vol. vi. p. loo. 



G g 2 1763, 



