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244 The “Floral King.
Smith’s own collection they had been sold to the
Linnean Society for £5,000. But in its archives
part of Linnzus’s vast correspondence still exists,
more than a thousand letters, mostly in Latin and
Swedish, and although several collections of letters
of Linnzeus have, from time to time, been published
in English, German, French, Italian, and Swedish,
‘comprising the correspondence which was carried on
with the savants of these respective countries, nearly
numbering 5000 letters; still, as only 708 out of
1253 known to be from Linnzus himself have been
published, a great number must still be waiting for
an able hand to arrange them, and give a choice
selection of this hidden treasure to the world at
large, for as a recent Swedish critic has well said:—
‘“‘Linneus, also on account of his oratorical and
literary merits well deserves his laurels, for his
diction falls like a toga around the divine form of
his thoughts. The naively simple tone which
pervades it, accords well with that pious and child-
like heart, which beats, almost audibly, between the
lines.”
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