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CHAP. 40. 
Biilcnius eftahliJJoed in the frofsfforjhip of botany 
at Oxford — Puhlijhes the Hortus Elthamenfis 
■ — Linnseus vifits the profejfor at Oxford— -Cjr- 
refpondence with Flaller — JJftfts Dr. Shaw in 
arranging his Oriental and African plants — 
His Hiftoria Mufcorumr— an hiftory 
cf the FungulTcs — His death and charafier* 
D I L L E N I U S. 
DILLENIUS was now arrived at that 
fituation, which had probably been 
the main objefl: of his wifhes ; and which 
he confidered equally as the completion of 
his hopes, the afylum againfl: future difap- 
pointmentSp and the field of all that grati- 
fication, for which his tafle and purfuits 
prompted him to wifh, and qualified him 
to enjoy. Add to all this, he was placed 
in the fociety of the learned, in the com- 
pleteft fenfe of that word, and at the foun« 
tain of every information, which the ftores 
" of both antient and modern erudition could 
difplay, to an inquifitive mind. 
The 
