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houfe, and recolkaing the young Swede with whofe at- 
tainments he had lately been fo well fatisfied, recom- 
mended Linnxus as being the moft likely to give order 
and defcription to his collections. The difplay of natural 
knowledge which Linnsus produced at their firft inter- 
view, fo well accorded with the wilhes of ClilFort, that 
he inftantly offered him a fituation in his family, and a 
ducat a day for his ftipend. 
An eftablifhment at once fo liberal and comparative- 
ly fplendid, diverted Linnxus from his intentions of 
returning to Sweden. In the houfe of his patron he 
found colleaed whatever could gratify his defire of in- 
formation in his favourite ftudies, and repofed with per- 
fea eafe with refpeft to pecuniary circumftances. In 
the year 1736 he publilhed his Fundamenta Botanica 
which afterwards appeared in an enlarged form, under 
the title of Philofophia Botanica, his Bibliotheca Bota- 
nica, and his Mufa Cliffortiana, or defcription of the 
rare plant Mufaparadifica. In this fame year he was 
admitted a member of the Imperial Academy of Natu- 
ralifts at Vienna, under the flattering denomination of 
Diofeorides the fecond. 
In the fummer of the following year, ClifFort^ 
defirous of enlarging his colleaion of foreign plants, 
furnilhed Linnxus with the means of travelling into 
England, for the purpofe of procuring fpecimens of the 
rarer North American plants, at that time cultivated at 
