Martyn^ 2iJ 
dern fcience, relating to plants, enabled him 
to appropriate the modern appellations, 
with a degree of judgment, that has been 
highly approved of by thofe who know the 
difficulty of the undertaking, under that 
almoft total want of fpecific diftindion, 
which occurs in the writings of the an- 
cients. 
In the year 1 737, our Author entered 
into correfpondence with Linn^us. It 
is one of thofe notices that can only oc- 
cur to a lover of fimilar ftudies, that he 
w^as, if not the firft, at leaft one of the 
parlieft Englijh writers, who announced 
the northern genius to the Britijh reader. 
This was done by the Profeffor's extraft 
from the Flora LapponicUy printed in the 
edition of the Georgics in 1741. It v/as 
fome years afterwards, before the fyftem of 
the Swede m^ade any progrefs in England. 
I fhall only remark further, that befides 
the obligations which literature in general 
owes to this learned ProfelTor, that which 
I call more ftri^tly Englijh botany, received 
confiderable augmentation from his labours ^ 
particularly from his methodizing The 
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