PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. 
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satisfaction of giving them this public testimony of their kind 
favours. 
In some of the first sections, on the journey through Dale- 
carlia, Sic. I must beg the reader to compare the annexed 
Supplements and Notes. Two of them I received at so late 
a period as to have found it impossible to insert them with my 
own text. Upon the whole, their authenticity entitled them to 
a plain and literal communication. In other respeCts, it would 
be an important and meritorious undertaking for any na- 
turalist to bestow farther labours on the materials which con- 
tain a full explanation of the hypotheses of Linn aus, on the 
subsequent elucidations which either refuted or confirmed them, 
on the whole and separate parts of his reform, and the progress 
made after him. The result of such an undertaking would 
offer an interesting view and comprehensive account of the 
formation and improvement of natural science since the epoch 
of our great luminary. 
With regard the annexed list of the writings of Linnaeus, 
I have neither spared labour nor trouble to render it it as com- 
plete and as satisfactory as possible. In point of the academi- 
cal treatises, I have mentioned those only which have received 
translations or commentaries. The motto beneath the por- 
trait of Linnaeus, which has been drawn from a most striking 
impression in plaster of Paris, will not, it is humbly presumed, 
offend the religious opinions of any reader. It originates with 
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