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in peace at least the near future, and further found to 
his delight, the opportunity of printing in Holland the 
treatises he had ready. On the 9th August he handed 
his “ Bibliotheca botanica ” to the press, and soon 
after his “ Fundamenta botanica”; the former being 
dedicated to J. Burman, “ as a lasting remembrance 
of the special friendship and kindness with which he 
treated me during the time when this work was in 
preparation.” Recreation during this strenuous period 
was provided by his enjoying himself in looking over 
Burman’s work on Ceylon plants, and diligently 
visiting the Hortus medicus at Amsterdam. 
During one of these visits, there happened an 
occurrence which in high degree recalls the first 
meeting of Linnaeus and Olof Celsius in the Uppsala 
botanic garden in the spring of 1729. While he was 
living in Holland he had certainly heard of the 
Director of the Dutch East India Company, Georg 
Clifford, LL.D., a very wealthy man, who took a 
particular delight in botany, and had set up an 
incomparable botanic garden on his estate between 
Leyden and Haarlem, the maintenance of which 
costing him annually 12,000 gulden [,£1,000]. He 
believed that this said garden could not be materially 
different from many others, “ which cover the highly 
cultivated Holland,” so that he neglected to visit the 
same. When one day he was wandering round the 
medical botanic garden, he was accosted by an entirely 
unknown person. This happened to be the said 
Clifford, who invited Linnaeus to pay a visit in the 
company of Burman to his country house at Harte- 
camp, to take the foreign plants and rare animals there 
into closer observation. 
For the kindness thus displayed to an unknown 
foreigner, Linnaeus had to thank Boerhaave. The 
latter was Clifford’s physician, and on one of his visits 
to obtain relief for his hypochondriac trouble, 
Boerhaave declared: “You cannot live a happy life 
unless a physician is daily with you to watch over 
