A general view of the writings of Linnaeus / by Richard Pulteney.

  • Pulteney, Richard, 1730-1801.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A general view of the writings of Linnaeus / by Richard Pulteney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    first part of the Diary is a note, of which the follow- ing is a translation, viz. “ Right Reverend Bishop, « The messenger will not wait until I have time to write. Be so good as to erase, alter, and add, pro tua sapiential This note is explained by the following memoran- dum, found among the papers just alluded to : “ On the 22nd of January, 1770, the Archiater von Linne sent from Upsala his Curriculum Vitce (in a very circum- stantial form, and continued by him up to that time) to Bishop Mennander, who was then at the Diet, at Stock- holm; with the following short vehiculum, written on the very document [see above]. This Life, which is further mentioned in the letters of the 29th of January, 1762, 30tlL of October, and 19th of November, 17^9, and 24th of January, 1770, therein copied, and also separately pre- served, together with a Latin translation (not completed) by my late father, and the genealogy of the family of Linne, made by the Governor of the Province, Baron Tilas, was dictated with all the ingenuous simplicity of Linne, and in some places interlined and corrected by himself. It is certainly the only Life of him wholly composed by himself, and of course the most interesting and worthy to be published of all the other papers, among which are 55 letters to his most intimate friend from youth, who was for- tunate enough to have chiefly contributed, if not towards re- warding this great man, at least towards encouraging him.” Tbe