430 NOTES. 



I received both manuscripts of the late professor Lange at Halle, who 

 v/as a special friend and correspondent of Linn^us, and formerly my 

 own teacher. 



PAGE 56. 



Conrad Gesner himself died without issue, but at his death there 

 remained alive of Andrew Gesner, his father's brother, one hundred 

 and thirty-Jive descendants in children, grand-children, and great-grand- 

 children. From the latter are decended the present family of the Ges- 

 ner's, one of whom as a poet, is universally known by his Death of 

 Abel and his beautiful pastorals. See Simleri Oiatio de Vita C. 

 Gesner I. Tigur. 1566, quarto. 



page 57. 



The Egyptian Herbarium of Prosper Alpinus is in the library of 

 the University of Leyden. It consists of four volumes in folio, classed 

 after the Lin n^ an method, and described with die Linn-^^an names. 



page 58. 



The voyage of Don Hernandez has not yet appeared completely. 

 It consisted of ten, others say of twelve, and others of fifteen complete 

 volumes in manuscript, which are still in the library of the Escurial. 

 That part of the work which has been published, consists only of ex- 

 tracts, and many notes are added to it by the publisher. 



page 62. 



The preface of Linn^us to his Eibliotheca Botanica is dated by him 

 as early as August 8, 1735. 



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