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fully appreciated. It retains a foremost place in 
every botanic library as the starting point of the 
modern usage of specific names in place of a long 
Latin descriptive phrase, a single word being sufficient 
to denote the particular plant meant. Linne took no 
special pride in these “ trivial ” names as they were 
first called; he admitted that he was not the first 
to employ them, and that it was only like putting a 
clapper in a bell. The second edition came out in 
1762-3, and two Mantissae in 1767 and 1771. 
Another work of far-reaching influence was his 
“ Philosophia botanica ” which he dictated to his 
pupil Lolling while recovering from a severe illness 
(p. 233). It was this volume which J. J. Rousseau 
declared had “ more wisdom in it than the biggest 
folios, in it there is not a single useless word,” and 
L. C. Richard said that though each winter he read 
it through, in his seventieth year he found it new and 
fascinating. It was printed abroad ten times and 
translated into German, English, French and Spanish. 
Specially noteworthy is his “ Flora suecica ” 1745, 
of which an enlarged edition came out in 1755; it was 
not a mere dry catalogue of plants, but embraced 
their properties and application. A similar book 
was the “Fauna suecica” with 850 species in 1746, 
and in the second edition with nearly 1,600. The 
following can only be named—“ Flora zeylanica,” 
1747; “ Hortus Upsaliensis,” 1748; “Materia 
medica,” 1749; “Bibliotheca botanica,” Ed. II., 
1751; “Museum Tessinianum,” 1753; “Museum 
Reginae Ludovicae Ulricae,” 1764; Prodromus Musei 
Regis Adolphi Friderici,” 1765; “ Clavis medicinae,” 
1766. (See Appendix : Bibliography.) 
Some of the above may be regarded as the product 
of his work as a teacher; but the following are still 
more closely connected with that other sphere of his 
work, namely the academic disputations which bear 
his name. According to the regulation which then 
prevailed, and even to 1850, everyone who would 
