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go The Floral King.
rather coldly received. However, Sir Hans soon
found that the letter-writer had not exaggerated,
and Linnzus was favoured with his confidence
and sincere respect. Linnzus wrote, on his
return to Holland, in letters to Sweden—“ With
the English I agreed very well,” and also,
“‘Sloane’s great collections are quite in disorder.”
But when Linnzeus in Hort Cliff records the
species Sloane, he remarks, ‘“‘ This name holds its
place amongst the illustrious. To Hans Sloane,
President of the Royal British Society, is owing
nearly all our knowledge of Japanese also of many
American plants. He alone collected many things,
more than any one else in Natural History ;
arranged them in a Museum of which the like
does not, and scarcely can, exist. I boast that
I have seen in such, a Herbarium of Sloane,
Plukenetus, Petiverus, Camellus, and of very many
other celebrated Botanists of the past.”
Philip Miller, the Manager of the Chelsea
Medicinal Garden, did not receive him very well,
either at first, and even openly ridiculed him,
saying, “‘A nice man truly, this Mynheer Clifford’s
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