[ 4 2 7 1 
REFERENCES 
AND 
EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
w ITH the following farther eh -dations and illustrations of certa 
passages of this biography the autnor has been favoured, by several 
persons of literary eminence, who contributed to this work. Though 
he obtained them at a time when the printing had for the most part 
been completed, yet the valuableness of their contents induces Mm 
to communicate them verbatim to the reader. 
The first part of these notes come from Dr. Schreber of Erlangen , 
President of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists at Vienna . 
N. B .—To each note is prefixed the number ofi the page to which it 
relates. 
page 7. 
THE father of Linnaeus took the resolution cf binding his son 
an apprentice to a shoemaker, at the persuasiot >f ■'«» persons, who 
for want of penetration, gave it as their opinic at the latter was not 
endowed with such parts as would ever qualif* aim for any learned 
1 i i 2 profession. 
