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NOTES, 



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Ehret was a Palatine by birth. When he first began to 'draw for 

 LiNNiEUs he gave himself no trouble about the number of stamina 

 and pistilla ; but the instruftions which were given him afterwards pros- 

 pered so well in his produ£lions, that he could anatomize the plants in a 

 very short time, and in the finest and most delicate manner, 



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The principal cause of the indifference which Baron Haller testified 

 with regard to Linn^us, is to be found in all kinds of tell-tale reports 

 of a6ls or words of Linn ^us, by which he was stated to have expressed 

 how little esteem he had for Ha ller. But these reports were frequeutly 

 the work of misconstru6lion, wilful malice, or fiQion. By such scandal 

 how often have not the learned been exasperated and embittered against 

 one another? Perhaps more than one enemy of the good Linn^us 

 had recourse to those vile arts of prejudicing him in the mind of the 

 Baron, who was not always strongly enough upon his guard, to treat 

 such insinuations with the contempt which they so jusdy merited. One 

 of these enemies waited once upon Baron Haller about the time when 

 this coolness first began to manifest itself between him and Linnaeus, 

 and intimated to the Baron, that LinnjEus made it his business to tra- 

 duce him (Haller) ; and to make good his assertion, the base slan- 

 derer added, that Linn^us had assigned a disgraceful place to the 

 portrait of Haller, almost behind the door of the hall where he kept 

 the portraits of the botanists. The insinuations of this calumniator are 

 said to have operated most forcibly upon the mind of the Baron to the 

 prejudice of Linn/eus. 



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