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MEMOIR OF LINN.EUS. 
naturalist, that he requested to be allowed to defray 
the expense of the publication; and the request being 
granted, the work was immediately put to press in the 
commodious form of tables, embraced in about twelve 
folio pages, and in this way was the foundation laid 
of that system upon which almost all those of the 
present day are in many ways most intimately con- 
nected, and by which the arrangements of the older 
systematists were almost at once superseded. 
By Dr Boerhaavc, Linnaeus was introduced to Mr 
Clifford, at this time the most enterprising botanist 
and horticulturist in Europe. With him Linnaeus 
spent perhaps some of his happiest days. Devoted 
with all the ardour of a young man to a favourite and 
fascinating pursuit, he was at once placed in one of 
the most favourable situations in the world for follow- 
ing it out. “ He enjoyed,” says Dr Pulteney, plea- 
sures and privileges scarcely at this time to be met 
with elsewhere in the world ; access to a garden 
excellently stored with the finest exotics, and to a 
library furnished with almost every botanic author of 
note ; permission to purchase whatever plants and 
books he thought worthy of being added to the col- 
lection ; and leisure to prepare his own works for 
the press." * In addition to these advantages, it is 
said by his biographer Stoevers, that Clifford allowed 
bim a salary of one thousand florins yearly, but which 
appears too munificent even for his liberal patron. 
Biography of Linnaeus, p. 87. 
