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of plants with new and most irrefragable arguments. The motto which- 
he affixed to this treatise, conveyed all the energy of his mind ; it was 
Tamara Extendere Faftis — “ To spread fame by deeds.” The good 
cause was triumphant. The Imperial Academy, at their meeting on 
the 6th of September, adjudged the prize to Linnjeus, and thus did 
homage to the truth of a system, which Siecesbeck, one of its mem- 
bers, had with equal acrimony and ignorance formerly endeavoured to 
destroy, 
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