OF THE LIFE OF LINNAEUS. 
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the seventh and last in 1769. Disputations were held under him till 
the year 1776. 
The Aulic Counsellor Schreber of Erlangen , one of the greatest of 
his pupils, who blended the fame of his master with his own, arro- 
gated to himself the merit of coliefiling the scattered and unknown dis- 
sertations, treatises and speeches of Linnaeus, with the writings of his 
son. He published those valuable archives of natural history, and 
augmented the Amaenitates Academics from seven to ten volumes. It 
may justly be maintained, that there never was a professor of the age 
under whom a series of disputations was held, more distinguished than 
the above for originality, genuine discoveries, and rich scientific con- 
tributions*. In the seven parts of the Linn.«an collefilions, there 
are altogether 150 treatises, the number of which, with more modern 
additions, has been augmented to two hundred. Fourteen of them con- 
tain descriptions and lists of the flowers and plants of various coun- 
tries and districts t. Thirty extend to certain genera and species of 
plants, and the remainder treat of the natural philosophy and history of 
botany, and a great number of them boast of medical, zoological, and 
lithological contents. 
During his residence in Holland, Linn^us had already given a con- 
cise theory of systematic botany in the work entitled Fundamenta Bo- 
tanica , and completed afterwards several additional chapters in his aca- 
* Linnaeus presided during the whole of his academical caieer at 1..6 disputations, 
Wallerius at 194, the Chevalier Ihre at 453, and professor Akermann at 516.— See 
J H. Liden’s Catologus disputationum, in Academiis et Gvmnasiis Suecia; habitarum, 
quotquot hue usque reperiri potuerunt, Upsal, 1 77 s - 
f Flora Anglica, Alpina, Patestina, Monspcliensis, Danica, Capensis, Jamaicensis, Belgica, 
Ackervensis, (Count Tessins Villa), Rybujcnsis, (a village in Sudermania), Plantas 
Surinameses, Camtchatcenses, Africans, Herbarium Amboinense. 
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