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THE LIFE OF THE YOUNGER LINNAEUS. 
But it wanted a real adept to remove the difficulties which obstru&ed 
the progress of the LinnjEAN system in England. The Britons, who 
felt so little relish at that time for foreign literature, became afterwards 
the most zealous admirers and votaries of Linnaeus ; and Dr. Solan- 
der contributed a great deal to this favourable change in the general 
disposition of the British literati. 
When Dr. Solander left Szueden to go to England, Linn.eus 
gave him a letter to Ellis, in which he recommended him as strongly 
as if he had been his own son. The incidental qualification of being 
a pupil of Linn^us, soon endeared him to almost every lover of na- 
tural history at London. His own prepossessing and amiable qualities 
served still farther to foster this favourable disposition on their part. 
He was so generally beloved, that every body owned that Solander 
had not a single enemy. When he was appointed inspe&or of the 
British Museum, there was only an incomplete and useless catalogue of 
its treasures; he was therefore charged with making anew one. He wrote 
seven large quarto volumes, and laboured from an early hour in the morn- 
ing till two or three o’clock in the afternoon. At that time he adjourned 
his exertions according to the London custom till next day. When he 
made the voyage round the world with Captain Cook, and in company 
with Sir Joseph Banks, his annual salary, as inspeflor of the British 
Museum, was doubled. In 1771* the father of Lin Nat us complained 
that he had not heard c Solander for several years, yet he had done 
as much for him as for any one of his pupils. He rejoiced, however, 
at seeing the new edition of Ellis’s Essay on Corallines, published 
under the auspices of Solander, who sent him some of the proof- 
plates. Solander was the oracle of natural history in England, and 
consulted 
