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to encourage everybody wlio goes to any part of the world where it is to be met 
with, to bring it over, either by young plants properly rooted, or by seeds collected 
in the proper season, and sown during the passage. I am sure no expense ought 
to be spared in an undertaking so interesting to the publick.* * * § 
A letter is extant from Solander to Banks, dated London, July 31st 
Wednesday (about 1772), respecting the prints and maps to be pre- 
pared for the French and German translations of Cook’s Voyages and 
Discoveries, which the naturalist, John R. Forster, was anxious to 
take with him to be reproduced by French and German engravers; 
mentions Earl of Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty. 
Sofa 1(1 f-r's Chfirnc/er find Ac/iicvf'men/x. 
We have few letters to Solander himself, and those addressed to 
Banks frecjuently contain a cordial message to the former, e.g . — 
Lieut. -Clerke, “ My respects and most social wishes to the good 
doctor. I’ll write him as soon as possible. ”t 
The personal affection he inspired is clearly stated in Ellis’s letter, 
quoted above, dated 19th August, 17b8. 
Ellis on another occasion speaks of him as “ very diligent . . 
the more he is known the more h' is liked.” He was evidently a 
general favourite. 
The letters already given show the affectionate solicitude of Liimreus 
for his friend and pupil, and also his high opinion of Solander’s qualifi- 
cations. 
Solander’s reputation early reached America. Note the remarkable 
exclamation of Dr. Garden (letter of January, 17()1). 
Collinson speaks of his zeal and industry, and hints at the suitability 
of S(dander as the successor of Limiieus. 
.\cconling to Fabriciiis, Fru von Linnc (wife of the great Linnoeus) forced her 
husfiand, who l>y sucli a concession surely partook largely of her guilt and mean- 
ness. to procure the nomination of his pupil Solander to be his future successor 
in preference to his own son, and it was part of her plan that he should marry 
her elilest daughter. Solander, however, disdained both the usurpation and the 
bait, refusing to leave Fngland, and the misguided father recovered his senses 
and authority, c uising his .son to receive this truly honourable distinction. J 
The complaints as to Solander’s being a bad corresjtoiident began 
soon after his arrival in England, and were made by many people, e.g. 
Dr. Garden, 19th Xovember, 17(U. 
Linnteus writes to Ellis. January, 1767, “ Pray persuade Solander to 
write to his excellent mother, who has not received a letter from her 
beloved son for several years, which she much laments. Her residence 
is now at Pitea.”S 
• Corresp. ; Linnius, ii, 24. 
t Hiet. Rec., i (1), 381. 
J " Tlirough the I'.elds with Linuseus,” Florence Caddy, ii, 345 (1887). 
§ Ib„ ii, 239. 
