OF THE LIFE OF LINNAEUS. 
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the honour of his name, in 1770. Thus was he (comprising the other 
scientific bodies mentioned before) member of twenty academies, 
namely, of three in Sweden , three in Germany , one in Switzerland , two 
in Holland , three in France , three in England , three in /te/y, one in 
Denmark , and one in America. 
From the river TVer/a to the Tagus in Europe , and in every other 
part of the world where Nature had friends, the works of Linnaeus 
became the compass of the study of natural history. When a 
great number of reforms were introduced in the year 1771 at the 
university of Coimbra in Portugal , under the direction of the Mar- 
quis de Pomb al, the royal ordinance issued for that purpose expressly 
stated, “ That the works of Linn/eus should be the pattern and basis 
“ of all botanical leQures, because he was the best and greatest author 
<c in that science. A similar change took place in the Spanish univer- 
sities*. If we quoted these two countries as examples, instead of any 
other, we did it because the scientific atchievements of the rest of 
Europe , penetrate so seldom, or at least so late and with so much diffi* 
culty beyond the Pyrenees. 
Thus Linn.® us reaped most plentifully those laurels which were 
the end and just due of his long and studious perseverance. The ter- 
mination of his career now formed the finest contrast with its beginning. 
After having crossed so many thorny paths, he obtained the seat of ho- 
nour and enjoyed peaceful fortune. His was the joy, to see in the year 
* The Spanish professor of botany, A. Capdevila, writes on this head to Baron Haller, 
in 1771 as follows : “In physiologicis per illustrem Hallerum ; in botanicis Carolum 
Linnjeum sequimur. Tournefortii rei Herborise Institutiones, et Caroli Linn.Ei Phi- 
losophiam Bonanicam legimus et relegimus ; hanc praeferimus illis ob summam do&rinam et 
eruditionem eximiam .— Efistolte ad Hallerum, vol. vi, p. 100. 
G S 2 1763? 
