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128 OPPONENTS OF LINN£US. 
This great man in the violence of his attacks and criticisms, was 
chiefly hurried away by jealousy. His ambition also induced him to 
behold, even the fame of Haller, with an envious eye. Notwith- 
standing this, he revered the greatness of Linnaeus, and honoured his 
memory. He gave a convincing proof of his respeH to Linnaius 
the younger. In 1782 the latter came to Paris , where the Count gave 
him a most cordial reception. The royal cabinet of natural history was 
shut almost to every body; but Buffon shewed him all that was 
remarkable ; and on his expressing a wish to see the royal botanical 
garden, he wrote to Linnaeus, jun. — that on that day he would be spoke 
to by none but him. 
Even Sweden did not want for persons who envied the good fortune 
and greatness of Linnasus. His only open and avowed enemy in 
that country was John Wallerius, the great mineralogist, who 
died in 1785. In the year 1741 he published an academical treatise 
at Up sal, which was entirely levelled at Linnjeus* •• . He laid down 
twenty propositions, in which several assertions .and representations 
of Linn Atus, in his System of Nature, in the Floia of Lapland , in 
his Dissertation on Cold Fevers, and in a treatise inserted in the tran- 
saftions of the academy of Stockholm , were treated with ridicule. He 
began with the thesis, that man cannot be classed among the quadru- 
peds. Then follows a critique on the Linn jean division of the 
* This treatise, which is extremely rare, and almost entirely unknown in every part of 
Europe except Sweden, has been communicated to the author by Mr. Ehbhardt, botanist 
to his Britanic Majesty in Hanover. The author has since inserted it in the following 
work, which he published at Hamburgh in 1791, in 8vo. — “ Colleftio Epistolarum Carol. 
•• a Linne ad Viros Cl. scriptarum; accedunt opuscula pro et contra Linnaum scripta, 
« extra Sueciam rarissima.” 
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