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" tarum with me to Germany, and to get it printed there. I promised him 

 " I would. A little before ray departure, I put him in mind of the proposal 

 " he had made; but he then told me, that he would wait Thunberg's 

 " return from his travfels, to publish the discoveries of the latter in the 

 " Supplement, and to send me the manuscript, as soon as every thing 

 " should have been inserted in its proper place. But Thunbkrg did 

 " not return till after the death of Linn iS us. He arrived, and com- 

 «« municated his new plants and their charafters to the son of his great 

 " master, who arranged them in their right order, and sent me the ma- 

 « nuscripts in the autumn of 1779, to be printed. I perused it, set down 

 " my doubts and observations, and sent them to Lin n^us. A corres- 

 " pondence then began between us, which lasted almost the whole of 

 " the ensuing winter. After this, I had copied it afresh, and began to 

 " get it quite ready for the press ; I was however, prevented, by the 

 " botanical tour through the eleftorate of Hanover, with which his Bri- 

 « TANNIC Majesty had expressly charged me. I got it ready at last, in 

 the winter between 1780 and 1781. The work was to be printed at 

 " Hanover, under my immediate inspection ; but it did not take place. 

 " I agreed afterwards for the printing of the work at Brunswick, in the 

 « asylum. The principals of the Orphan Asylum procured new types 

 « for this purpose, printed it off in the summer of 1781, and paid an 

 « honorary of two ducats per sheet, which I sent to Linnaeus after 

 « his return from England. Messrs. Du Roi and Pott 2ii Brumwick, 

 « were so kind, while I travelled about, to take care of the correspon- 

 « dence." 



Thus, after so many obstacles, the liberal and unremitting efforts 

 of a German friend of Linn^us, cfFeaed the publication of a work, 



the 



