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The Floral King. 243
and hate what is in any way remarkable, because
some one else has first observed it.”
But all things changeth, reputations are built up,
and by a succeeding generation ruthlessly pulled
down, the Linnzan Era has passed, the Herbarium
which Linnzus thought so vast, is twenty-folded by
the knowledge of to-day ; his system is superseded,
and his collections have dwindled away until they
are held in merely a few drawers, that principally
contain shells and insects, the latter much damaged
by time, that being all which is yet preserved in the
Linnean Society of the Natural History collection
which Dr. J. E. Smith bought of Linnzeus’s heirs for
goo guineas, and September 2gth, 1784, brought away
in twenty-six boxes in the vessel ‘‘ Appearance.”
But already in March 1796, the collection of minera-
logy was dispersed by auction. And all the natural
objects preserved in spirits of wine exist no more ;
the mammals have disappeared, the birds have flown,
and the fishes slipped away, probably caused by
the several removals, first to Dr. J. E. Smith’s
private museum, and afterwards to and from the
location in Soho Square. Together with Dr. J. E.
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