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A Paris le 21 7bre 1771.
J J Rousseau.
[address] A Monsieur / Monsieur de Linné / Chevalier de létoile polaire. &c. / A Upsal.
1. Journal de Paris (9 May 1786), 519.
2. Smith, A selection, II, 553-554.
3. Rousseau, Correspondence complète, ed. R. A. Leigh, XXXVIII, 267-268.
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[1] Linnaeus, Philosophia botanica (1751).
[2] Jonas Jacob Björnståhl reports in a letter on his visit to Jean Jacques Rousseau in Paris on 1 September 1770. According to the letter which was published in Allmänna tidningar and in Björnståhls Resa til Frankrike, Italien, Sweitz (1780-1783), Rousseau confessed his great admiration for Linnaeus and especially for his Philosophia botanica, which he had acquired in 1765. Rousseau asked Björnståhl if Linnaeus would appreciate a letter from him (Björnståhl, Resa til Frankrike, I, 98-99.). In a letter to Linnaeus of 20 November 1770 Björnståhl refers to his visit to Rousseau and mentions the philosophers admiration for Linnaeuss works. In 1771 Rousseau received a letter and some books from Linnaeus. Linnaeuss reply to the letter above is said never to have reached Rousseau (Dahlgren, Philosophia botanica, 20).