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LINNAEUS IN I733 AND 1734. 
means to reside a few years in Holland , for the purpose of acquiring 
still greater perfection in medicine} natural history and botany} bj his 
intercourse with the most celebrated scientific Batavians, especially 
with Boerhaave, with whom he has already carried on a learned cor- 
respondence. 
Linn^us also came to Holland to get published, in a manner ad- 
vantageous to himself, the works which he wrote in len, especially 
three tables in large folio, finished with the most surprising diligence and 
ability. On one of those tables he represented all kinds of flowers 
and plants which can be thought of, in a quite new but very plain 
manner ; the flowers are reduced to classes by means of the two differ- 
ent sexes, and by the number of the petals or leaves; on the second table 
he has collected all the genera of stones in the same manner, and with 
such excellent order and classification, that he believes to be able 
to give any person in a few hours a general notion both of bo- 
tany and mineralogy. He farther intends to publish a work, which 
he calls Flora Lapponica , and in which he describes and gives plates 
of all the unknown plants and flowers which he discovered on his tour 
through Lapland ; also another production to which he gives the title of 
Otconomia Lapponica, and in which he takes notice, in a masterly and 
regular style, of all he has seen in his extremely difficult, and in some 
instances dangerous peregrination, with regard to ceconomy and 
natural history, the dresses, dwellings, rearing of cattle, manners, 
occupation, diligence and character of the Laplanders. 
Whatever this great man thinks and writes is systematical, and he can- 
not rest till he has brought science, or those defefts which he pur- 
poses to mend, to that order which is alone congenial to her. It may 
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