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| | §32. Botanic Gardens. VIII. The Literature of Science. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In fact, this lady may be regarded as the foundress of Kew, which, since her time, has played the leading part in the dissemination of botanical knowledge throughout the world. |
 | | In the latter half of the eighteenth century, the Linnaean system of classification had been generally adopted in Great Britain, and, in the year 1783, Sir James Edward Smith secured, from the mother of Linnaeus, for £1050, the entire Linnaean collections. |
 | | These did not, however, reach these islands without an effort on the part of the Swedish government to retrieve them. |
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