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PANEGYRISTS OF LINNAEUS. 
« of which, to conclude from your letters and your celebrity, ought to 
« gain you an immortal name.” 
In a second Letter, March 1 glh 1740* 
44 I have frequently been speaking of you to my colleague, professor 
K Macnol. He holds you in reverence. DoCtor Le Monier, of 
44 Paris , who, by the King’s commands is collecting plants here, calls 
44 you a divine, an adorable man — virum adorandum. I congratulate 
44 you, that Jussieu, that zealous adherent of Tournefort, has 
44 arranged the royal botanical garden at Paris, according to your sys- 
44 tern. I now esteem him the more, since he is obsequious to the 
44 truth. An uncommon and extraordinary thing indeed ! He so old 
44 — and you so young — and both botanists ! Ah ! how much do the 
44 noble botanists excel the splenetic and envious physicians !” 
In a Third Letter, dated August 12, 1740. 
44 Your name is now most copiously quoted by the literati of our 
44 nation, and your writings are eagerly sought after. He that is in 
44 possession of them, conceals and preserves them in the most careful 
44 manner, and does not communicate such treasures. 
44 Were I to express the pleasure which I felt in the perusal of 
44 your works, it would take up several letters to describe it. Your 
44 merits are far above my encomiums. I want eloquence to represent 
44 them. I dwell, therefore, in mute admiration. All my colleagues 
44 are astonished when they hear what you have done at your time of 
44 of life. There never was a man who could write in so short a time, 
44 so 
