OPPONENTS, AND LITERARY CONTESTS OF LINNAEUS, 
BARON HALLER.— FIRST LETTER OF LINNiEUS TO THE B'VRON.— CONNEXION 
BETWEEN THESE TWO GREAT MEN.— FRIENDSHIP, RIVALSHIP, AND OPINIONS 
OF HALLER.— G. E. HALLER, HIS SON, WRITES AGAINST LINNAEUS. — L. HEISTER 
AT HELMSTADT.— HIS RESENTMENT AGAINST LINNiEUS.— EXCITES HIS PUPIL, 
PROFESSOR SIEGESBECK, AT PETERSBURG, AGAINST HIM.— AN ACCOUNT OF 
THIS MAN — HIS LITIGIOUS WRITINGS.— THEIR RIDICULOUS CONTENTS.— IS RE- 
FUTED BY GLEDITSCH AND PROFESSOR BROWALLIUS.— HEISTER ENTERS THE 
LISTS AGAINST LINNAEUS. — SEEKS TO DISPLAY HIS CELEBRITY BY A WORK OF 
BURKHARD.— SEXUAL SYSTEM OF LINNAEUS.— IDEAS OF THE ANCIENTS RESPECT- 
ING THE SEXES OF PLANTS.— JUNG.— MILLINGTON.— CAMERARIUS AND BURK- 
HARD.— THE LATTER STARTS IDEAS ON THIS HEAD, WITHOUT SUCCESS.— LIN- 
NAEUS UNACQUAINTED WITH JUNG’S WORKS. — ANECDOTE. — LIST OF THE 
OTHER PRINCIPAL OPPONENTS OF LINNiEUS— KLEIN— CRANZ— ALSTON— PON- 
TEDERA— SPALLANZANI.— ADANSON— COUNT DE BUFFON.— EXQUISITE POLITE- 
NESS OF COUNT DE BUFFON TO LINNAEUS, JUN.— WALLER, A PUBLIC ANTA- 
GONIST OF LINNAEUS IN SWEDEN. — PUBLISHES AN ACADEMICAL TREATISE 
AGAINST HIM.— CONTENTS OF THAT WORK.— TURNS OUT TO THE AUTHOR’S 
PREJUDICE.— ANECDOTE.— ANYMOUS DEFENCE OF LINNAEUS. — ITS CONTENTS— 
HIS METHOD OF REVENGING HIMSELF ON HIS ADVERSARY.— HIS PRUDENT 
CONDUCT IN EVERY ATTACK. 
Revolutions are never effected in the bosom of peace and 
perfeht concordance. They occasion convulsions, and these more or 
less violent storms. Thus it happens in the political world, and still 
more so in he republican domains of literature, where every one is at 
liberty to give his vote. In the political world, the triumph of revolu- 
tions depends on the resolution and superiority of power. In the re- 
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