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LINNAEUS IN HOLLAND. 
Holland before he got acquainted with its principal literati and other 
remarkable objefts. 
He went from Harderwyk to Leyden , which is the first Dutch uni 
versity. Having lived too high at Hamburgh , his poverty now con- 
strained him to hire a garret and live extremely low. At the same 
time he looked out for friends and acquaintance, and soon found them. 
Among these were Adrian van Royen*, Professor of Botany; 
Do£lor, and afterwards Baron van Swieten, one of the oldest and 
most favourite pupils of Boerhaave; young Lieberkuhn from Ber- 
lin, then a student at Leyden , afterwards celebrated by his accurate 
microscopic observations and anatomical curiosities; farther Isaac 
Lawson, a Scotchman, whose loss like that of Lieberkuhn, 
sciences had too early to mourn, and Doctor John Frederi 
Gronov, afterwards senator and burgomaster of Leyden. 
The latter, who was also a well versed lover of botany, encouraged 
and induced Linn*us to enter the lists as author, in which, having 
been supported by a concurrence of many favourable circumstances, 
he soon formed a great and splendid epoch. Among the various writ- 
ings which he had long ago colled and projefted in Sweden, he first 
published the plan or prospeaus of the classical work which became 
afterwards the universal code of natural history. His Syst m«. 
Nature t appeared on fourteen folio pages. It was the foundation 
stone of the edifice, which was on subsequent occcasions so symmetri- 
cally and so beautifully finished and aggrandized by its archil eft, and 
enlarged by foreign artists. 
, He was made Professor after Boerhaave, who resigned his Professorship on account 
»f his age, in . 73 * 5 ‘> e was born in *W‘ and died “ ' 779 ' es 
t Systema Nature, sive regnia tria nature, systematic* proposita, per classes, o , 
genera et species. Lugd. Batav. i735- *° bo mntalus 
