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REFERENCES 



AND 



EXPLANATORY NOTES. 



W I T H the following farther elucidations and illustrations of certain 

 passages of this biography the author has been favoured, by several 

 persons of literary eminence, who contributed to this work. Though 

 he obtained them at a time when the printing had for the most part 

 been completed, yet the valuableness of their contents induces him 

 to communicate them verbatim to the reader. 



The first part of these notes come from Dr. Schreber of Erlangen^ 

 President of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists at Vienna. 



N. B. — To each note is prefixed the mmber of the page to which it 

 relates. 



PAGE 7. 



THE father of Linn-4:us took the resolution of binding his son 

 an apprentice to a shoemaker, at the persuasion of those persons, who 

 for want of penetration, gave it as their opinion that the latter was not 

 endowed with such parts as would ever qualify him for any learned 



I i i 2 profession. 



