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cherous rival. Linnaeus himself related this threatening incident, 
which was like to have proved sinistrous to his passion, in a letter 
which he wrote a twelvemonth after to Baron Haller *. 
He intended to pay a visit to Haller at Goettingen , and to profes- 
sor Ludwig at Leipzic , on his way back to Sweden , and had proposed 
to himself to pass through Upper and Lower Saxony, and the Danish 
dominions. Both, according to his promise, expended him with impa- 
tience. But he altered his resolution. Being so near the confines of 
France , he would not miss this opportunity of seeing Paris , where he 
had previously made several acquaintances by his correspondence. 
He reached that capital in the beginning of May, where Anthony 
and Bernard de Jussieu, two brothers, were the principal botanists. 
The former was the successor of Tournefort, and died in 1758, and 
his brother in 1777. They gave Linnaeus a most kind and flattering 
reception, though Anthony wasabigotted adherent to Tournefort’s 
system, and too old to begin to learn anew one. Through them he be- 
came acquainted with the most eminent French literati, and saw all the 
botanical and other natural curiosities at Paris, He also saw the herbals 
of TouRnefort, Vaillant, the two Jussieus, and of Surian, a 
French physician, who had made two voyages to America with Plumier 
the jesuit. He visited the public libraries, and the private ones of Is- 
ard and others; was introduced to the great entomologist Reaumur, 
* Permansi in Belgio, lit novisti ; interim amicus meus summits, Cl. B. . . Litteras arnicas 
meat ad me per tabellarios continuo transmittebat ; sanfte praestitit. Ultimo anno 1738, quo 
apu<i Van Royen vixt, (quod erat quarto anno; non enim socer plures quarn tres concessit 
annos) et hoc quidem nutu sponsae, sibi proximum judicavit B . . . esse, mea enim recom- 
mendatione factus fuit professor ; mox me non reversurum in patriam demonstrabat ; Spon- 
sam meant ambiebat, fere obtinuit ni intervenisset alius, fallaciam qui prodidit ; punitus et 
ipse fuit mille fatis adversis. Epistol. ad Haileruin, vol. i. p. 413. 
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