PANEGYRISTS OF LINNAEUS. 
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<{ so many valuable works. I hear that the Herrmanian garden at 
{t Leyden is also arranged according to your system. To speak candidly, 
“ you are a real Charles XII. in natural history ; yet with this diffe- 
“ rence, that you have subjugated the botanical world for ever.” 
BARON ALBRECHT HALLER 
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In six letters to Linnaeus, from April 14, 17375 to the 9th 9f 
January, 1738, calls him an excellent and true — nay, the first, greatest, 
most eminent, and most accurate, botanist. 
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In a Letter to Linnaeus, April 7, 1738 : 
“ What do you care for Siecf.sbe.gk! Was there ever a man, who 
“ embarked in a new and grand enterprize unenvied? Is there not 
“ plenty of great characters who do justice to your merits ? Did you 
“ever hope to please every one, even the Siegesbecks? Cheer 
“ up and presevere, continue to embellish the sciences in which you 
« have acquired so much real celebrity.” 
Haller in his AH. Germ. Erudit. Page 288. 
“We feel pleasure to premise, that there has never a been bools 
« written in this science, which can be compared with the Genera 
“ Plantarum of Li n n *u s. Its whole plan is unborrowed, unattempted, 
“ and original. It is built on the strictest examination of 8000 plants, 
“ But what Linnaeus has done none has ever attempted or thought 
« of.” 
GLEDITSCHy 
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