THE LIFE OF THE YOUNGER LINNAEUS. 
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consulted whenever any new natural production was to be described, 
defined or named. What proves his indefatigable diligence, are the 
collections of plants of Sir Hans Sloan e, and those of Ray, Pe- 
tiver, Plukenet and others, which Sir Hans purchased after the 
death of their proprietors. Dr. Solan dir added to each of those 
plants, by the side of which the names given to them by the original 
collector were written, the Linnaan name; or, if they were new, 
he gave them a name of his own choosing. 
The younger Linn a us had come into a new world of curiosities, 
and never seen happier days than in the metropolis of Great Britain. 
But this happiness did not remain undisturbed by unpleasant occur- 
rences. Fate had reserved for him the saddest and most melancholy 
doom of witnessing the death of his friend, Dr. So lander, who was 
suddenly carried off by an apoplectic roke. To honour his me- 
mory he called a new plant Sclandra, the description of which he pre- 
pared for insertion in the transactions of the Royal Academy of 
Sciences at Copenhagen. He had already paid the tribute of his grati- 
tude to his kind patron, Sir jo Banks, and given a public testi- 
mony of respect to his merits, u scribing in the Supplementum a ge- 
nus of plants from New Hollan, the name of Banksia. It was also 
an unfortunate circumstance, ih imost naif the time of his residence 
in England should have been los - him. He fell ill of the jaundice, 
under which he laboured for near avo month After his recovery he 
continued his travels, by setting o i for France at the latter end of Au- 
gust, 1781, having sojourned fou. months and ar half in England , 
On his way to Pans, he was ompamed by the French naturalist, 
M. Broussonet, lately a membe of the second National Assembly, 
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