LIFE OF UNNJEUS. 101 
hands of a young man and a foreigner. 
They said, “he is a young enthusiast, 
who confuses every thing, and whose 
sole merit consists in having plunged 
botany into a state of anarchy. 5 ’ 
“ Don’t laugh, good people,” said the 
French naturalist Guettard, who per¬ 
ceived at once the merit of the new sys¬ 
tem; “don’t laugh at Linnaeus: the 
time will come when he will laugh at 
you all.” jl* 
Before he left Paris, a most unusual 
compliment was paid him, by his being 
admitted as a corresponding member of 
the Academy of Sciences. 
After deriving much pleasure from a 
month’s residence in the French me¬ 
tropolis, be proceeded to Rouen; from 
whence he sailed to his native land. 
But here another state of things await¬ 
ed him. 
Abroad he had been treated with the 
