EMINENT NATURALISTS 



SIR CHARLES LINN/EUS. 



he subject of this sketch was born 

 on May 3rd, 1707. His father was 

 pastor of the little village of Bashult, 

 in the province of Smaland, Sweden. 

 The family surname is supposed to 

 have originated from a lofty linden- 

 tree which stood in the native place 

 of their ancestors. 



Charles was the first-born of the 

 family, and, like many other men 

 who have made the world famous, it was intended that 

 he should follow the same calling as his father, and 

 though the pidpit of that day may have lost an earnest 

 and zealous teacher, botanical science has been the 

 gainer, and in many ways it may be said that he 

 has exerted a wider and more beneficial influence by 

 the calling which he eventually followed than he could 

 possibly have done as a village pastor. 



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