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botanical reform. 
“ " 0t ch °° !e ‘° arrange t1,c b <=tanical garden after my own method 
« My obligations to Boeruaav, are t00 greati and , ^ ^ 
mtrc, respea for hi, memory." Van Roy in i„, is ted on having 
.be garden altered. « Well," said L.NNatus « let us projed some „e w ° 
system, wh.eh shall be neither Bos.hsavs's nor mine, but which 
“ may be cons.dered as your own.” This proposal pleased, and thus 
originated, after the publication of Currottr's garden, the new de 
script, on of the botanical garden a. Leyden, and Rove's new system 
^botany, of which, striaiy speaking, L,„n«s himself was the au . 
LiNNftus profited by his stay at Royer's to publish two other 
works. The one friendship imposed on him as a duty, and the 
other had for its tendency to put in a clear light the prerogatives of hi, 
system, and to establish its predominance. 
The first „ a s the pro d uQio „ of the diligence of ^ ^ ^ 
. e ichthyology of Arte.,,, which appeared in the beginning of . ’ 
at Leyden; a work, which in Linn-tus’s own opinion, is unequalled 
the natural htstory of fishes. The second was the Claeses Plantarum, 
winch published in the same year on 656 oQ ’ 
In this work he presented a general and circumstatial view of the 2 
teen untversal and thirteen partial systems dll then introduced in bo 
tany, from Gesner and C-esalfinus, the firs, systematical botanists 
down ,0 bis own time. He criticised the classifications of Mottison 
R A Y,*DiLLENtus, Kraut, R.v.nus, Ruff, Lunwte, Hermann,’ 
■IjOERHAAVE, ToURNEFOP t Virr T . O 
v 5 ‘ lant, Sheuchzer, Magnol and 
aluntur. Ludgd, Sat 1 ^^2 U * S> eX ^'* JCns *°^ antas *l lue * n Horto Academico Lugduno— Batavo 
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