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laws of systematisation which he had there evolved. 
In every particular case, however, where I had any 
suggestion or criticism to offer, he seemed prepared to 
vindicate his own opinion to my entire discomfiture". 
ARTEDI mentioned also, at the same opportunity, that he 
meant to publish in collected form the works he had 
up to then written, and that he was only waiting until 
his task for SEBA should be completed, to revise and 
touch them up finally so as to make them ready for 
the printer. Before LINN^US bade him goodbye ARTEDI 
showed him all his notes and his manuscripts, a thing 
he had never done before in spite of their intimate 
friendship. "In this way I had been detained", says 
LINNAEUS, "far beyond the time I had intended to stay, 
and our colloquy had far exceeded the limits usual 
with us, but, though my patience at the time was be- 
ginning to fail, I would gladly have had our meeting 
continue much longer than it did, had I known it was to 
be our last." 
A few days later, on September 27 1735, ARTEDI 
was a guest at SEBA'S house. The evening passed rap- 
idly in lively converse with a number of congenial 
friends, and it was rather late when ARTEDI left to go 
home. In the darkness of the night, as he was groping 
his way along the streets, with which we may conclude 
he would not be very familiar, he stumbled, and, fall- 
ing into one of the many canals that line the streets 
of that city, was drowned. Thus, in such sorrowful 
wise, was a period put to a career of great promise. 
At the age of only 30 years the keen and gifted natura- 
list was removed from the scene of his labours by so 
simple yet fatal a misadventure. 
The accident was discovered on the following day 
by the recovery of the body; this was first removed to 
the City Hospital, and thence taken for decent and 
seemly burial 1 by the man with whom ARTEDI had 
1 ARTEDI was buried on October 2 1735 (O. S.). From an ex- 
tract taken from the Register of Deaths for the City of Amsterdam 
we learn that his last dwelling-place was in Warmoestraat, near Nieu- 
