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LINNAEUS IN ENGLAND. 
The latter visited him a third time, and met with a more pleasant and 
polite reception, obtained the plants which he requested for Cur- 
fort’s garden, kept up ever after a friendly acquaintance and cor^ 
respondence with Miller, and the garden of Chelsea was finally ar- 
ranged according to the Llnnzsan system.. 
From London, Linnaeus went to Oxford. The greatest and most 
ingenius botanist in that University, 'was,. at that time, John James 
Dillenius, by birth a Hessian, formerly professor of botany at the 
University of Giessen , who died in 1747. He met with the same pa- 
tronage on the part of a rich Englishman, which Linnaeus did on the 
part of Cliffort. This patron was Wiliam- Sherarjd, whose 
brother James was also a great lover of natural history. Sherard, 
as a private man, was the most zealous promoter of natural science 
England could then boast of. He had. long resided- at Smyrna as Consul, 
and he collected a great number of plants and natural curiosities.. On. 
his return, to England he established the celebrated botanical garden 
at his seat at. Eltham, which- was described by Dillenius. (Hortus 
Elthamensii, Oxon. 1732..J He intended to continue the great work. of 
Bauhin (ti mi Theatri Botanici), but death arrested him in his enter- 
prize in 1738* To render his cohesions useful to posterity, he de- 
posited a sum of money to establish a professorship at Oxford, for the 
purpose of describing and arranging those colleaions. Dillenius 
obtained this office, he took upon him the prescribed literary labour, 
but could not accomplish it. His. time was mostly taken up by his 
natural history of Mosses, ( Histona Muscorum , Oxon. 1741). a classical 
work, in which more than 600 species of mosses are described, by 
which. 
