CHAPTER 52. 
which, otherwife, his application of the fy- 
7io7tyma might have been involved. 
The fexual fyftem was received nearly 
about the fame time in the univerfities of 
Britain ; being publicly taught by Mr. 
ProfelTor Martyn, at Cambridge^ and by 
Dr. Hope, at Edinburgh. The adoption 
of it by thefe learned ProfeiToTS, I confider, 
therefore, as the a;ra of the eftablifliment 
of the Linnc^an lyftem in Britain — a fyftem, 
which, if I may be allowed the expreflion, 
had given the author of it a literary domi- 
nion over the vegetable kingdom ^ which^ 
in the rapidity of its exteniion, and the 
ftrength of its influence, had not perhaps 
been paralleled in the annals of fcience. 
I N D E X. 
