Publication of the Philosophia Botanica--General Account of that Work--Linnaeus engaged in arranging the Collections of the Queen and Count Tessin--The Species Plantarum--Sir J. E. Smith's Remarks on it--Quotation from the Preface, with Remarks--Linnaeus publishes improved Editions of his Works--Obtains Prizes for Essays from the Royal Societies of Stockholm and Petersburg--Is elected a Member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris--Receives Plants and Seeds from various Quarters--Purchases two Estates--Delivers private Lectures at his Museum--His Emoluments--His Son appointed his Assistant and Successor--He receives Letters of Nobility; and is rewarded for his Discovery of the Art of producing Pearls--His domestic Troubles, Infirmities, and sincere Reconciliation to his old Antagonist Rosen, who attends him in his Sickness. It has been already mentioned that Linnaeus, when residing in Holland, printed a short treatise containing his theoretical views respecting the classification of plants. This work, to which he gave the title of Fundamenta Botanica, consisted of a series of aphorisms or propositions, which his friends afterwards repeatedly urged him to demonstrate at length, so as to constitute them into a body of doctrine which might be considered as the code of botanical science. Accordingly, in 1751, he published the Philosophia Botanica, one of the most remarkable performances that any age or country can boast of. It consists of 12 chapters, 52 sections, 365 aphorisms, in imitation of the different divisions of the year,--a puerile conceit, with which his enemies have not failed to taunt the illustrious author. Had there been a hundred days more he might have found aphorisms for them all; and any one conversant with zoology might engage to construct a classification of animals on the very same principle. Since he was so attached to numerical analogies, it is surprising that he did not form 12 classes of plants, 52 orders, 365 families, and a number of genera corresponding to that of the hours in a year. On such an arrangement might, with due calculation, have been founded a system of botany as perfect as any that had appeared before his time. The distribution of his materials, however is the only childish part of the book; for in other respects it must be acknowledged to be a model of perspicuity, precision, and force.