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After further interviews, Burmann induced Linn; ens 

 to remain in his house in order to aid him in the work 

 he had in hand, and Linnaeus, with his slender 

 resources well-nigh exhausted, was glad to avail 

 himself of the board and lodging offered in exchange 

 for his services, so that he might be able to pursue 

 his studies. 



The Dr. Boerhaave already mentioned now rendered 

 Linnaeus a further most valuable service. He had a 

 patient, by name Cliff ort, who was very rich, and 

 who had spent large sums of money in acquiring 

 treasures of every description from all parts of the 

 world; but these he kept in a veritable Olla Podrida 

 fashion, without almost any attempt at classification. 

 He was a man who was always imagining himself ill ; 

 and Dr. Boerhaave advised him to keep a physician 

 of his own, and to fill this post he recommended a 

 young Swede then at Amsterdam, who was qualified 

 as a doctor, but was also an excellent botanist, and 

 this was Linnaeus. 



Burmann and Linnaeus were invited without delay 

 to the house. In the gardens and hothouses were 

 many rare and curious productions from the Cape 

 of Grood Hope. Linnaeus displayed such knowledge 

 of these, that Cliff ort, on Burmann's expressing his 

 pleasure on seeing a newly-arrived volume, " The 

 Natural History of Jamaica," said that Burmann 

 might have the copy with pleasure if he would leave 

 him Linnaeus by way of exchange. His offer was thai 

 of a home and an allowance of 1,000 florins per annum. 

 And this house of Cliffords at Hartecamp became the 



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