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The Floral King. 113
expresses the greatest gratitude for the offer, ‘‘ I may
say,” he writes, “that I have numerous acquain-
tances amongst my fellow beings, and many have
been attached to me by friendship, but no one has
ever made me such a handsome offer as you have. I
can give you no other answer, seeing that you have
put yourself in the place of a father to me, than to
render you a short account of my life till this hour.”
He then briefly recounted his career, finishing by
relating that he had recently been married. Thus
settled in Sweden he could not think of a professorial
chair in a foreign land, but he proposed to come on
some future time on a visit to von Haller, and bring
his “ darling wife” with him. ‘To reside abroad,”
he says in his Diary, ‘‘ from that time never more
entered my mind.”
Von Haller in his ‘ Bibliotheca Botanica,”
acknowledges the Linnzan system as a new era in
Botany, and without prejudice reckons his own works
as pertaining to a past period. What von Haller
thought of Linnzus may briefly be gathered from the
following extract from his Tome X. ‘ Linnzus and
his Contemporaries.”
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