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CONTENTS. 
1ft , B ° tan >'- Is received a m^ber of the Imperial Academy of Natu- 
"p' 1 ]*, V ‘ enna ~ Goes over to England — Sir Ham Sloane, Bart— 
Ph. Miller, Botanist at London; and Professor Dillenius at Oxford— R e 
cept.on— Anecdotes— Account of Dilknius— Linnaus forms several other 
connexions Returns to Holland His zeal of reform-His herculean ia- 
ouis is works in 1 737 Sensations and refutations occasioned by 
hem-Op.mons on his works by Professor Ludwig and the celebrated J. 
J. Rousseau— Otter made to him to go as physician to Surinam— 
He proposes his friend Bartsch— Unhappy end of the latter Lln- 
; r; g0eS * ******** ^ked with the home-sicknefs-Leaves 
Hartecamp— Subsequent decline of this place— Van Royen— Linnaus be- 
comes the author of the latter’s System of Botany— Anecdotes— Linnaus 
publdhes the Ichthyology of Artedi— The Dutch are the first who do homage 
to his reform — Linnaus longs to see again his country — His illnefs Its 
caufes— His vain resolution of making a tour in Germany— Takes a trip to 
that capiul_is chacd 
the French Academy of Sciences-Anecdotes-His return to Sweden. , 2 
SECTION VI. 
Pacf 
Opponents and literary contests of Linnaus- Baron Haller- First letter of 
Linnaeus to the Baron— Connexion between these two great men— Friend- 
flup, rivalfhip, and opinions of Haller— The younger Baron Haller writes 
against Linnaus— Lawrence Lighter at Helmstaedt— His resentment again ft 
Linnaus— Excites Professor Slegesbeck at Petersburgh againft him— An ac- 
count of this man— His contentious writings— Their ridiculous contents— 
Is refu 1 by Gleditsch, and Doctor Browallius of Abo— Heister enters 
the lists againft Linnaus Seeks to destroy his celebrity by a work of 
Burkhard— Sexual system of Linnaus— Ideas of the ancients respect- 
ing the genera of plants— Jungius— Sir Thomas Millington— Comer arias 
and Burkhard The latter starts ideas on this head, yet without any 
success— Linnaus was unacquainted with Jungius' s works-Anecdote- 
1st of the other principal opponents of Linnctus— Klein, Cranz , Alston , 
ontedii a. Andanson, Count de Baffin, 8 cc. — Exquisite politeness of Buffbn. 
to the younger Linnaus— Wallerius, the public antagonist of Linnaus in Swe- 
den— Publifhes an academical treatise against him — The contents of that 
work 
