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under the care of Dr. Solan der, was constantly open for his inspec- 
tion, with all its herbals and colle&ions. 
The public and private botanical gardens, the royal botanical garden 
at Kew, that at Chelsea , and that of the Marquis of Ro CKINGHAM 3t 
Wimbledon , became particular objefts of his attention. He also visited 
the principal museums of natural history, the libraries and menageries. 
See. belonging to private persons both in and about London ; amongst 
others, those of the Dutchess of Portland, of Dr. William Hun- 
ter, Sir Ashton Lever, Dr. Fordyce, Dr. Fothercill, Dr. Pit- 
cairn, Dr. Lettsom, Messrs. Gordon, Yeates, Lee, Malcolm, 
See. Sec. 
Wherever he could find an opportunity of gratifying his scientific 
curiosity, he eagerly sought after it; and the enthusiastic love of bo- 
tany and natural history which then prevailed in England, afforded him 
every where the most cordial reception, and the profoundest respeH for 
that name which his father had rendered so celebrated. 
Among the men, who first made known the Linn a; an system of 
botany in England, was the celebrated Dutch naturalist, Peter Cam- 
per*. Pie had recommended it in the most particular manner during 
his first residence in this country, from 1748 till the summer of 1749. 
He found an opportunity in his intercourse with Sir Hans Sloan e, 
Dr. Smellie, Dr. Hill, Collinson, Catesby, Sec. Sec. to show to 
the British naturalists and botanists, how plants were to be examined 
according to the method of Linnaus. His demonstrations excited 
admiration and roused to and fro a spirit of investigation. 
* Born at Leyden, May nth, 1722, and died April 7th, 17S9. This account comes from 
a person who was personally acquainted with Linn a: us, Camper and Solarder. See 
Levechez Van Camper, by his son, A. G. Camper. Liiewarden, 1791. 
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