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interest of natural history. He left Upsala on the 12th of May, and after 

 an absence of five months returned to Upsala on the 10th of October. 

 This remarkable journey of 4600 miles was made partly on horseback, 

 partly by boat, and partly on foot; it extended northwestward across the 

 Norwegian Alps to the coast of Norway beyond the Arctic Circle; the 

 return journey was made by way of eastern Finland It was an undertaking 

 of great hardship and much danger, being performed alone, aided only by 

 local guides employed to conduct the way from one point to another. On 

 his return a report of his journey was presented to the Academy, but it 

 remained in manuscript until translated and published in English by Dr. 

 James Edward Smith, the first president of the Linnsean Society of London, 

 in 1811.^ The botanical results, however, were published separately by 

 Linnaeus himself, in 1737. 



The following year was spent at Upsala, where he attempted to eke out 

 his scanty means of support by giving lectures on botany, mineralogy and 

 chemistry. This proved contrary to one of the statutes of the university, 

 to the effect that no one should give public lectures who had not obtained 

 his doctor's degree, which statute was invoked against him by Rosen, the 

 successor to Rudbeck in the pi'ofessorship of medicine and anatomy, who 

 was jealous of Linnseus's abilities and attainments. Deprived of this 

 financial resource, he took some of his pupils on excursions into the neighbor- 

 ing mountains, where he met the governor of the province of Dalecarlia, 

 who sent him to explore and report on certain copper mines in which he was 

 interested. While on this journey he gave lectures at Falun on mineralogy 

 and assaying. Here he made the acquaintance of Dr. INIorseus (a learned 

 and wealthy physician of the district) and his two daughters, to one of whom 

 he became betrothed ; the father, however, insisted on deferring the marriage 

 till Linnaeus had completed his professional studies and obtained his medical 

 degree. For this purpose, in the spring of 1735, he journeyed to Lubeck 

 and Hamburg, and later to Holland, where, in June, he received from 

 the University of Harderwijk the degree of doctor of medicine. At 

 Leyden he became acquainted with the leading men of science of that city, 

 which soon led to his engagement by Dr. George Cliifort, a wealthy burgo- 

 master of x\msterdam, to take charge, at a liberal salary, of his extensive 



1 The herbaria, library (about 2500 volumes), manuscripts and ccnespondence of Linnasus, 

 were offered by his widow and daughters, "by the advice of friends," to Sir Josepli Banl<s, 

 "for the sum of a thousand guineas." Sir Joseph, not feeling inclined to the purchase, recom- 

 mended it to the consideration of his friend, Dr. (later Sir) J. E. Smith, by whom these treas- 

 ures were secured, and transferred to England (Turton, Life and Writings of LinncBUS, 1806, 

 p. [39]), and later passed into the possession of the Linnsean Society of London, founded in 

 1788 through the efforts of Dr. Smith, who was its first president. (See Jardine's Natural- 

 ist's Library, Vol. I, 1833, p. 58.) 



