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died in his infancy : Elizabeth Ghriftiana, who married 

 Bergencrantz, a captain of cavalry ; flie has been forae 

 years dead, and left one daughter : Louifa, and Sarah 

 Chriftiana, both at prefent refident with their mother at 

 Hammarby : and Sophia, who is married to Dufe, pro- 

 curator of the fenate of the univerfity of Upfal. 



His fon Charles fucceeded Linne in the office of 

 ProfelFor of Botany at Upfal. He had, as may be readily 

 conjectured, been early ejicouraged in the ftudies t)f na- 

 tural fcience ; but by an unaccountable hatred with 



which his mother purfued him, his home became un- 

 pleafant, and his ptirfuits difgiiftf&F : after his fathers 

 death, however, his zeal for the promotion of natural 

 fcience returned; he purchafed from her his fathers 

 manufcripts and colle£lions : and in 1781, with the af- 

 fiftance of Ehrhart, publifhed at Brunfwick the Supple- 

 mentum Plantarum. In the fpring of the fame year, 

 he vifited London, and was received by- Sir Jofeph Banks 

 and the mod eminent naturalifts of Great Britain, with 

 a warmth of regard and attention, which at once did 

 honour to their liberality and the memory of his father. 

 From England he travelled into France, where, among 

 the many teflimonies of efteem he received from the firft 

 characters in fcience, he was prefented by Louis XVI. 

 with a copy of the fplendid collection of plants engraved 

 by his majefty's command. From Paris he proceeded to 

 Holland, and returned to Stockholm through Weftphalia 



and Lower Saxony, after an abfence of about two years* 



