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

  • Pulteney, Richard, 1730-1801.
Date:
1805
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    fanical works were the public and private libraries to which hfc obtained access by means of the Jussieus, that he soon found his catalogue doubled. His design, however, was not executed until the year 1747, when the Bib/lothcca Botanica came forth, much augmented, at Halle. Subjoined to a third edition, pub- lished at Amsterdam in 1751, is a biographical table exhibiting, in chronological order, the names of 139 botanic authors, from the time of Avicenna in 981, to Catesby in 1749, and specifying, wherever it was possible, the year of their birth and death. In the first edition, this table was brought down no further than to our countryman Houston, who died in 1733 ; it was afterwards con- tinued to the year 1759, in an academical dissertation, which will be noticed hereafter. The whole has been copied by Gili- bert into the first volume of his Fundament a Botaiuca. Linnaeus has been followed in this useful undertaking by Seguier*', L. T. Gronovius-f*, and others, but the literary world are most in- debted to the illustrious and indefatigable Haller, whose work;]:, as it is no less a critical than a typographical history, is inestimable in its way. The catalogue published by Dr. G. R. Boehmer§ is a valuable performance, but differs from Hallers in its arrange- ment, which is purely systematic, whereas the other’s is chronolo- gical; that of Seguier and Gronovius is in an alphabetical order. We have to boast of an admirable specimen of biblical arrange- ment, published within a very late period, in our own country, * Bibliotheca Botanica, Hagae, 1740. 4to. t Auctarium in Bill. Bot. Seguieri. Leyden. 1 760. 4to. t Bill. Bot. qua scripta ad rem herbariam facientia a rerum initiis recenscntur. 2 Tom. Tigur. 1771. 1772. 4to. § Bibl. Scriptorum Hist. Nat. &c. realis systematica. Lipsiae, 1785—1789- 8vo. 3 Voh and