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BOTANICAL REFORM. 
■who invented the new thermometer ; examined with Bernard de 
Jussieu all the curious plants in the botanical garden; and in a word, 
every thing which his curiosity could wish to have seen in so short a 
time. He wrote to Haller 44 I have seen here so many public and 
44 private libraries in natural history, that I am already enabled to pub- 
<£ lish a second edition of my Bibliotheca Botanica , since my fresh know- 
“ ledge of books is much greater than it was before.” 
Pam, from its predilection for Tournefort and Vaillant, gave 
but little credit to the botanical reform of Linnaeus : 44 He is a young 
44 enthusiast,” they would say, 44 who confounds all, and whose sole 
44 merit consits in having plunged botany into a state of anarchy*.” 
44 Don’t laugh, good people,” said the French naturalist Guettard, 
who penetrated deeper than the rest into the spirit of the Linnalan me- 
thod, 44 don’t laugh at Linnalus, the time will come when he will 
laugh at you all. A truly pathetic anticipation — for the same young 
Swede who now afforded them merriment, became afterwards, in de- 
spite of their sarcastic jokes, the master of his science in France, — and 
the late royal garden at Trianon was arranged according to his own sys- 
tem, in preference to that of the French botanists. 
Linn At us was treated in the most friendly, cordial and affeQionate 
manner by Bernard de Jussieu, whom he never ceased to corres- 
pond with. 44 I heard with pleasure,” says Dean Baeck, who was at 
Paris in 1743, 44 in what high terms Bernard de Jussieu spoke of 
44 Lin na;us, whom he always used to greet by the title of our good 
“ friend.” 
* C’ est 11 n jeune enthousiaste, qui brouille tout, n’a d’autre merite et de gloire, que d’avoir 
jais l’anarchie dans la botanique. 
