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profession, They grounded this judgment upon the little progress which 

 young LiNN/EUS had then made in Latin. His proficiency in this 

 language was certainly far from being considerable ; and it so happened 

 merely because he felt no inclination of learning it from those books, 

 which were assigned to him for that purpose. No sooner, however, had 

 RoTHMANN direfted him to read Pliny, than his progress became 

 most rapid ; because the contents of that author corresponded entirely 

 with his own natural propensity. To this circumstance may be ascribed 

 his predileftion for Pliny, and likewise the laconism of his style. 



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Of the first volume of Ol. Rud beck's Campi Elysiiy no more than 

 three copies w^ere preserved, one of which is at Oxford and two 

 in Sweden. Several copies of the second volume were extricated from 

 the flames ; but they are become a rarity. Those of the wood-cuts of 

 the first volume and some others which were saved, have since been 

 reprinted by the care of Dr. J. E. Smith. 



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When LiNN^us gave leftures for Ol. Rudbeck, he composed a 

 catalogue of the plants which he saw in the Swedish gardens, especially 

 in those of Upland. This work is entituled: Caroli Linn^i, M. B. 

 et Z. C. S. R. Hortus Uplandicus, sive enumeratio stirpium, quas in 

 variis hortis Uplandia?, imprimis autem in horto botanico publico 

 Upsaliensi coluntur, nec non quae in agris ferunter ; Methodo propria 

 in classes distributa. Upsal, M.DCC.XXX. seventy-four pages in oc- 

 tavo, besides a plan of garden of the palace at Upsal, a pre- 

 face in Swedish, and an index. This catalogue has never been 



printed. 



