known at the court. Cmint TcfHn, at that time pofc^cd 

 of great influence, gave him his patronage, and in a (hort 

 time procured him the office of Phyflclan to the fleet ani 

 botanifl to the king, in polTellion to thefe hononrabJe 

 ofS ces, together with a lucrative profellion, or the 26th 

 of June lie mar^-ied Mifs Moixus. 



In the latter end of the fame year, by the intereft t£ 

 Teli^n, he laid the foundation oi the Royai Academy of 

 Sciences at Stockholm, of which he was appointed the 

 firft prefident, Tiic duration of this oiSce was by the 

 ftatutes of the inftitution deter«ftinable at the end of t5?cee 

 months, and upon his reiignation he made an oration on 

 the fingularities in the habits and manners of infeSs. 



Teffin feeni5 to have been his great Maecenas, to 

 have fought him in his obfcurity, and to have oondu£led 

 him to the higheft regards and honours. He procured 

 him a pei^fion from the treafwry, piade him prefident of 

 the CQllege of phyilcians, introduced him to two kings, 

 caufed him to be ennobled, and recommended hioj to pof- 

 tefity byaniedalo To this noble patron Linnseus dedi- 

 cated the twehh edition of his Syftema Naturae, and ir* 

 9 grateful ftraifi of the mojl aiFe£]ting eloquence, he thus 

 pours out his acknowledgments, 



l^um ^uivis .au(2or fpcrct fe apui pofteros gfatiaaj 

 Kakcre, ct p«fle fecuci d^iratura aojuiaa educerc, 

 AuiSori meae ibrtunae iil?clkiia wltiiao nunc oit'tuo. 

 |& me, ptrcjrinuin in pattla, rcdacem excp^Hj 



