324 A LIST OF THE WORKS OF LINN/EUS. 



Sixteenth Edition. — A copy of the preceding Stockholm edition', 

 Vienna diX. Trattners, 3 vol. 1767, 1770. 



Seventeenth Edition. — (According to Linn^us the thirteenth, called 

 in the title the Elevejith) — auQ.a, reformata, cura J. F. Gmeliki, 

 Leips, 17885 the si^ volumes of the first part in large oQavo, com- 

 prising altogether three thousand nine hundred and nine pages. The 

 first part, which contains the Animal reign, is completed in the six vols. 



And Tom. ii. Pars Priyna et Secunda, Lips. 1792. The first part 

 of eight hundred and eighty- four pages in oftavo, comprises with new 

 genera and species of near one hundred botanists, the twelve first 

 Classes of the Linn^an System. 



No nation can produce so complete a repertory of Natural History 

 as the above. With infinite labour, exertion and judgment, all the re- 

 cent discoveries and observations in all the branches of Natural 

 Science, have been united in it. 



In the Animal reign, the works of Schreber, Pennant, Fabri- 



CIUS, GoETZ, SCHROETER, MuLLER, CrONSTEDT, VoN VeLTHEIM, 



Bergmann, Kirwan, Block, Her,bst, Stoll, Voigt, Fuessli, 

 Sestini, Buffon, Adanson, Camper, and the Travels of Pallas, 



SonNERAT, LeskE, LePECHLN, GuLDENSXiEDT, Peyrouse, Ra- 



suMowsKY and of an infinite number of other learned men have been 

 consulted. 



Had LiNNAus even enjoyed a longer life, no such enlargement and 

 perfeftioa of his code of nature could have been expeftedfrom him in the 

 North *. 



* LiNN^us himself wrote to Professor Gieseke, on the aoth' of December 1774, as fol- 

 l«w>: «' Naturae Scientia in dies augetur tot novis inventis, ut vix ea comprehendere valeam., 



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