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Dr. Bartsch, a young man with whom he had formed a 
friendftiip at Leyden. They had both warmed them.- 
felves with promifes of reciprocal kindneffes, and Lip*' 
nxus had hoped by the means of his friend to be occa- 
fionally fupplied with the rarities of Guinea ; but 
Bartfch did not furyive his appointment more than 
months. 
Occafionally attending Cliffort to Amftcrdam> he 
went to Leyden and vifited his friend Van Royen» who 
wifhed him to day and aflift him in the arragement of 
the botanical garden there, and offered him a falary of 
800 florins a year. Here he remained the whole of the 
winter, and during his flay publifhed the Ichthyology 
of his deceafed friend Artedi, and his own Claffes Plan- 
tarum. 
Early in the fpring of 1738, he was afflidled with a 
long and dangerous illnefs, occafioncd as it is fuppofed by 
the treachery of a friend. This faithlefs wretch had 
been entrufted with the care of the correfpondence be- 
tween Linnseus and his intended bride, hlifs hforasus; 
and betraying the confidence repofcd in him, endcayour- 
ed to procure the lady for himfelf, by perfuading her 
father of the improbability of Linnceus ever returning to 
Sweden after having exceeded the three years at firft ap- 
pointed for his daughter’s celibacy. This misfortune 
was however prevented by the interpofition of another 
friend ; and upon his recovery, Linnasus dcternuiied tO 
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