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later writings, he speaks of species, as being <c temporis 
filia,” “ filia prsecedentis ” (the daughter of the time, 
the daughter of the last mentioned), clearly showing 
that he believed in the appearance of evolved species. 
A recent author, A. Hansen (Giessen, 1902), has 
issued a small volume packed with blunders, in which 
he has the assurance to state, that Linne “ from our 
standpoint can no more be considered a botanist.” 
Censure is often directed against Linne, because 
he did not busy himself in such important departments 
as the anatomy and physiology of plants. It may be 
noted that to be a great man in this science, it is 
necessary to do something in these branches, it is 
impossible to find anybody who can be recognized as 
having done so. Linne’s activities fell principally in 
that department which was most important in his time, 
and in that he produced great work. That he thereby 
was obliged to leave on one side other branches, which 
then attracted but little notice, is easily explained, for 
with full reason one may ask: has anyone the right to 
demand more of a single man? Is it not marvellous 
that he achieved so much as he did ? 
He has also been accused of slight valuation of 
researches concerning the inner construction of plants, 
and it has been recalled that Linne in his “ Philosophia 
botanica,” does not reckon plant-anatomists and 
physiologists as botanists but as botanophilists. These 
are to be found in his “ Bibliotheca,” evidently from 
the order in which such works can be suitably arranged. 
But he put all who investigated plants as phytologists, 
divided into two principal groups, (1) botanists, who 
occupied themselves in describing plants, (2) botano¬ 
philists, who devoted themselves to plant-anatomy, etc. 
These complaints are based simply on this, that the 
word “ botanist ” is now the same as his “ phytologist,” 
and that Linn6 concerned himself chiefly with system¬ 
atizing and description as a botanist is natural, for the 
number of the others was then inconsiderable. 
The chief cause of a perverted appreciation of 
