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« a visit I found him pale, downcast and weeping because his father had 
(i just died. Our conversation soon turned upon plants, stones and ani- 
“ mals. The new remarks he made, the knowledge he displayed, struck 
11 me with amazement. I solicited his friendship, he wished for mine. 
« How valuable, how happy was our intercourse! With what pleasure 
45 did we see it cemented ! If one of us made some new observation, he 
“ communicated it to the other; not a day elapsed without our re- 
14 ceiving reciprocal instruction. Rivalship increased our diligence and 
44 researches; though we lived at a great distance, yet it could not pre- 
44 vent us visiting each other every day. Even the dissimilitude of our 
« chara£ter turned out to advantage. His temper was of a more 
« serious cast. He excelled me in chymistry, and I outdid him in the 
« knowlege of birds and insects, and in botany.” 
Arted: finally confined his botanical studies to that division of the 
vegetable reign which treats of the planlce umbellferce, (umbelliferous 
planis), in which he pointed out a new method of classification, which 
was afterwards published by Linnaeus. But the chief objeCl oi his 
pursuits, which transmitted his fame to posterity, was the empire 
of Neptune, or the knowledge of the natural history of fishes, called 
Ichthyology. Even in this branch of science Linnaeus first stood 
up his rival, but found himself so far exceeded in point of abilities 
by his friend, that he relinquished to him this province, on which the 
latter afterwards bestowed all his juvenile labours. 44 Thus,” says 
Baeck, 44 these two young rival geniuses divided among themselves 
“ natural history, as the Romans once had done the domination of 
44 the world.” 
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