XX BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS ON LINNvEUS. 
XVII. 
Revue Generate des Ecrits de Linne; Ouvrage dans l e quel on trouve 
les Anecdotes les plus interessantes de sa vie pnvee , un abrege de ses sys- 
temes et de ses ouvragcs, Gc. par R. Pulteney, traduit de l' Anglo is par 
L. A. Millin de Grandmaison; avec des notes et des additions du 
TraduBeur; d Londres et d Paris, 1789, Vol. i. three hundred and 
eighty-six pages ; Vol. ii. four hundred pages , snail 8 vo. The most in- 
teresting Anecdotes from his private Life , mentioned in the title, it would 
he in vain for us to look after in the present work, unless we choose to take 
for such those given by Prof essor Fab r re 1 us, which the Translator has 
partly copied in the Second Volume, from page one hundred and seventy-six 
to page one hundred and eighty-three, from another French work entitled 
Melanges de la Litterature Etrangere. The original and translation 
might both have been very successful, had the Swedish Commemoration 
Speech and the German Authors been consulted . The Supplements of M. 
de Grandmaison, to the Second Volume of his work, from page one 
hundred and seven to two hundred and sixteen, are valuable as Botanical 
and Literary documents, but replete with errors and false chronological 
dates. To the Extract made by Dr. Pulteney from the seven volumes of 
Amoenitat. Academ. the French Translator has added the substance of 
Tom. viii. and ix. published by the Aulic Counsellor Schreber. It is 
asserted that Dr Smith of l udon, has communicated several Anecdotes 
to the Editor, but this assertion, lam authorised to assure my Readers, is 
totally unfounded. 
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