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PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. 
a man who has lived many years in the closest ties of intimacy 
with the deceased, who combines with the rarest qualities of 
the heart, an universal scientific renown. 
I hope the addition of the following observations will not be 
deemed extraneous to my subjeft. 
. h is wel1 known > tha t the works of Linnaeus are chara6te- 
rized with his religious sentiments. Nevertheless, they had 
the misfortune of being considered at Rome as heretical and 
materialistic produ6tions. In 1758 they were inserted in the 
catalogue of forbidden books. No one durst either print or 
sell them, under pain of having every copy confiscated or pub- 
licly burnt; this proceeding was opposed by a fine contrast 
during the reign of the excellent and truly enlightened Gan- 
ganelli, or Pope Clement XIV. Linn^us himself men- 
tions this occurrence in a letter to the Chevalier Thunberg, 
in the following words : “ The Pope, who fifteen years ago’ 
“ ordered those of my works that should be imported into his 
“ his d °minions to be burnt, has dismissed the professor of bo- 
“ tany who did not understand my system, and put another in 
" his place, who is to give public Ieftures according to my 
“ method and theory*” 
brLInXnrfZ Profe S 5 S o a r r B e f n befaIt ’ ditW ™>'kulle de 
armor some skall Iasa publicf' ^nmethT h U T 
r „ D , T . P 'V m,n mcthoJ och theorie.— See Colle£Ho Ephtolarum 
Car. a Linne, &c. edid. D. H. Stoever, Hamb. 1792, odavo. 
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