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consulted whenever any new natural produ6lion was to be described, 

 defined or named. What proves his indefatigable diligence, are the 

 coUeftions of plants of Sir Hans Sloan e, and those of Ray, Pe- 

 TiVER, Plukenet and others, which Sir Hans purchased after the 

 death of their proprietors. Dr. So lander added to each of those 

 plants, by the side of which the names given to them by the original 

 colle6lor Were written, the Lin an name; or, if they were new, 

 he gave them a name of his own choosing. 



The younger Linnaeus had come into a new world of curiosities, 

 and never seen happier days than in the metropolis of Great Britain. 

 But this happiness did not remain undisturbed by unpleasant occur- 

 rences. Fate had reserved for him the saddest and most melancholy 

 doom of witnessing the death of his friend, Dr. Solander, who was 

 suddenly carried off by an apopleftic stroke. To honour his me- 

 mory he called a new plant Solandra, the description of which he pre- 

 pared for insertion in the transa£lions of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences at Copenhagen. He had already paid the tribute of his grati- 

 tude to his kind patron. Sir Joseph Banks, and given a public testi- 

 mony of respe6l to his merits, by describing in the Supplementim a ge- 

 nus of plants from New Holland, by the name of Banksia. It was also 

 an unfortunate circumstance, that almost half the time of his residence 

 in England should have been lost to him. He fell ill of the jaundice, 

 under which he laboured for near two months. After his recovery he 

 continued his travels, by setting out for France at the latter end of Au- 

 gust, 1781, having sojourned four months and an half in England. 



On his w^ay to Paris, he was accompanied by the French naturalist, 

 M. Broussonetj lately a member of the second National Assembly, 

 1 with 



