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MEMOIR OP LINNAEUS. 
premature death of Hasselquist, who was cut off 
at Smyrna in 1752, and of Loefling, who died in 
America in 1756. His grief for Artcdi showed 
how ardent had been the friendship of their youth : 
this Naturalist had been his college companion; 
they had studied together at Upsala, and from the 
similarity of their pursuits, had been led to contract 
for each other the tenderest personal esteem. After 
the death of his friend, Linnaeus, to whom he had 
bequeathed the charge of his manuscripts, pub- 
lished his work on Ichthyology ; and in a preface, 
which has been applauded as a model of beautiful 
latinity, he deplored the fate of his class-fellow in 
language that reminds us of the pathetic lamenta- 
tions of David over liis beloved Jonathan. 
In nothing was the benevolence and good nature 
of this illustrious man more remarkably displayed, 
than in his conduct towards those who vilified and 
opposed him, as the author of a new system subver- 
sive of all established arrangements. He met with 
many detractors in France. His principal adversa- 
ries were Adanson, Buffon, and Lamethrie; the 
latter bitterly ridiculed him for placing man among 
the mammiferous animals — in the same class with 
the horse and the hog ! Buffon affected to deny 
that he had either method or system. The learned 
Haller was the most formidable among his German 
antagonists. “ Linmeus (says he) sets himself up 
as another Adam, to give names to the whole ani- 
mal creation according to certain marks of his own, 
