MEMOIR OF LINNiEUS. 



France, and, indeed, his merit everywhere produced the same 

 consequences ; but he expressed his firm determination to return 

 to his own country. 



From Paris, Linnasus went to Rouen, where he embarked 

 for Sweden, after an absence of nearly three years. During this 

 period he had vastly increased his information, particularly upon 

 botany, and had taken advantage of the Dutch presses, to publish 

 many of his works, which he had either previously written, or 

 brought with him in an imperfect state, while the liberality of his 

 patrons, and some learned societies, defrayed the expense, and 

 even assisted to illustrate some of them with plates. 



Upon his arrival in Sweden, Linnaeus immediately visited his 

 aged father, and thence proceeded to Stockholm, where he com- 

 menced practising as a physician, but met with much opposition, 

 on account of his botanical studies. His perseverance, however, 

 succeeded, and he obtained extensive practice. Writing to a 

 friend, he says, " I am undeservedly got into so much practice, that 

 from seven o'clock in the morning till eight in the evening, I have 

 not even time to take a short dinner." He became acquainted 

 with Captain Triewald, who was endeavoring to establish an 

 Academy of Sciences; and, in conjunction with this gentleman, 

 and the Baron Hopken, a society of some note was instituted, the 

 presidency of which devolved upon himself This was the origin 

 of the present Academy of Stockholm. By the interest of one 

 of its members, he was soon afterwards appointed physician to the 

 navy ; and, with a fixed salary, was chosen to give public lectures 

 upon botany and mineralogy. 



By these lucrative appointments, and the money he had saved 

 during his residence in Holland, he was now in a situation of com- 

 parative independence, and was enabled formally to apply to Dr. 

 Moreus for the hand of his daughter ; and no plea for rejection 

 now existing, Linnaeus was united to Sarah Elizabeth Morea, on 

 the 26th of June, 1739. 



