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adopt the Linnjen arrangement. Upon his return to 
Holland, Linnreus, always ambitious of adding to the 
number of bis friends the firft names among the fa- 
vourers of natural fcience, endeavoured to obtain the 
countenance of Dillenius, by dedicating to him his Cri- 
tica Botanica : but in fome of his letters to Haller, Dil- 
lenius treats him with a morofenefs of criticifm and a 
harlhnefs of language, which the known learning and 
endowments of Linnreus did not deferve, and which it 
became not one of the moft learned men in a learned uni- 
verfity to apply. During his ftay in England, Linnaeus 
had fecured the correfpondence of Miller, Martyn, Col- 
linson, Rand, and Ehret. 
Fully gratified by the events and fuccefs of his jour- 
ney, he returned to Holland about the end of the fummer, 
and employed himfelf in the arrangement of Cliffort’s 
garden, and in digefling the fruits of his own obfervations. 
In this year he publilhed his Crilica Botanica, Hortus 
ClifFortianus, Flora Lapponica, Genera Plantarum, and 
a fupplement called Corollarium Generum, forming to- 
gether a mafs of original knowledge, fuch, as perhaps, no 
man ever produced in fcience within the fame period of 
time. 
At this time the office of Phyfician in ordinary to 
the Dutch eftabliffiment in Surinam became vacant. 
Phe appointment was vested in Boerhave, who offered 
it to Linnaeus. This he declined, but recomrnended 
