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OF THE LIFE OF LINNAEUS. 
Besides those two Princesses, who did honour to their rare talents and 
accomplishments, Linn.eus had .also friends and correspondents among 
the fair sex in several countries. Among those at Paris we reckon 
Madame du Gage de Pommeruil and Mademoiselle Bassport; at 
London Lady Ann Monson; at Oxford Mrs. Blackburne ; and at 
New York, in America , he had a most enthusiastic admirer in Miss Col- 
den. As flattering as the approbation of the fair must have been to 
him, as gallantly did he acknowledge it. He preserved their names in 
the vegetable reign, and denominated amongst others, two beautiful 
plants Monsonia and Coldmia. 
The celebrity of his name and his connexions in all parts of the world, 
were as much calculated for the advancement of science in general, as 
they proved pleasant to him, and above all, advantageous to the royal 
botanical garden. The latter became a northern paradise, which dis- 
played the treasures and curiosities of nature from all quarters of the globe. 
No where could the student of botany find a more beautiful living re- 
pertory of science. To send to Linnaeus the seeds of rare or new 
plants, was both esteemed an honour and a pleasure. Thus were plants 
transmitted to him, exclusive of those which he received of the above- 
mentioned persons, from Astrachm and Kamtschatka by M. Demi doff, 
one of his Russian pupils, who obtained them from the colle&ions of the 
two famous travellers, St eller and Lerche ; from Siberia by Gme- 
lin ; from Egypt and Palestine by the ill-fated FIasselquist; from 
China by Lagerstroem, Osbeck and Toren; from the island of 
Java by Bastor and Kleinhoff; from Tranquebar by Koenig, one 
of his pupils; from the Cape of Good Hope , by his friend Burrmann 
at Amsterdam, and by the Dutch governor Tullbach, and his pupils 
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