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requisite for becoming a priest, was hopelessly deficient, and 

 that he would far better succeed as a workman — a joiner or 

 tailor. (In a note Prof. Fries remarks that this episode of his 

 youthful days made so little impression upon him, that he passed 

 it over without a word in his earlier autobiographies, and only in 

 later years did he refer to it as a piquant matter.) The result of 

 the advice so given was as follows : — " Deeply depressed he [the 

 father] came afterwards to Dr. Eothman, to whom he confided 

 his troubles, and he did not remain unhelped. Eothman stated 

 that, so far as Carl was concerned, the schoolmaster was right, he 

 would never become a priest, but, on the other hand, he was sure 

 that Carl would become an eminent medical man, by which he 

 could maintain himself as well as by being a clergyman." Eoth- 

 man also undertook to take the young man into his own house, 

 and to give him special instruction for the University. 



3. " In 1730 Linnaeus was appointed Lecturer on Botany at 

 Upsala. The vivacity and novelty of his lectures charmed his 

 audiences, and he was greatly esteemed by the college authorities" 

 (p. 68). 



Linne was appointed by Eudbeck to be his deputy, although 

 still a student, an irregularity which was only suffered by the 

 University because of the want of a graduate to fill that place ; it 

 was ended after Nils Eosen came back to Uppsala, having taken 

 his doctor's degree at Harder wijk. 



4. " The Eoyal Academy of Sciences sent Linnaeus to collect 

 the floia and fauna of Lapland . . . and in 1748 he published a 

 book on his travels " (p. 68). 



The Academy named was not founded till seven years later, 

 not until Linnaeus had returned to Sweden from his eventful 

 journey to the Netherlands. The Society which commissioned 

 Linnaeus to explore Lapland was the Eoyal Society of Sciences 

 (Eegia Societas Scientiarum) at Uppsala. The Flora Lapponica 

 was published in 1737; the volume "in 1748" is probably the 

 " Olandska och Gothlandska resa " of 1745. 



5. " On his return Linnaeus was elected a member of the 

 Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academien (Stockholm) . . . " 

 (p. 69). 



Linnaeus was one of the founders and the first president, in 

 1739. The rest of the paragraph is equally at fault. 



6. " In 1735 he set out for Holland, spent some time at 

 Leyden, obtained his medical degree . . ." (p. 69). 



The degree was taken at Harder wijk, not Leyden. 



7. " Cliffort's gardens and hot-houses were an El Dorado for 

 Linnaeus, and from this home he wrote and published his 

 Funclamenta Botanica and Bibliotheca Botanica (1736). Both 

 of these books established his fame, and attracted attention in all 

 parts of Europe " (p. 70). 



These two books were already written when he left Sweden, 



although he probably added some book-titles to the Bibliotheca 



while with Clifford; but his Sy sterna Natures, Flora Lapponica, 



and Genera Plantarum created greater astonishment. The books 



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