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Humboldt strongly disagrees with that. The largest botanic expeditions of the XVIII were lead by South American universities. Mutis, a friend of Linnaeus, produced the greatest plant classification of XVIII century. When Humboldt arrived in Colombia and saw his progress, he requested that his work be published, but the friar's advanced age, his reluctance to publish until he had classified every single plant species in New Granada, and the civil war between royalists and independentists meant that his work was lost for decades.