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240 The Floral King.
his pupils, the sexual system was sufficient. He
initiated only a very few into his ‘ ordines naturales,’
whose value has only been rightly understood and
appreciated by a much later time. Linnzeus evinced
quite as great merit in that he particularly incited to
biological studies, purified the language, fixed the
terminology, founded the character of family, intro-
duced art names instead of the former long descrip-
tions. The necessity of the latter he compared
himself with putting a tongue in a bell. With
Linnzus was begun quite a new era in the history
of Natural Sciences, for so thoroughly was, and
became, his reform.”
But the eminent scientist Dr. J. Sachs in his
work “Geschichte der Botanik von 16 Jahr-
hundert bis 1860,”—(Miinchen 1875,) has attacked
Linnzus as having only followed other experts in
classifying, and in the art of characterising,
relegating Linnzeus to being solely a systematizer
and not a physiologist as well. However, Dr. J. G.
Agardh, in a paper which he read at the Centenary
Celebration of Linnzeus’s death, January roth, 1878,
in Lund, ably refutes the would-be detractor of
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