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which wan never published. Soon after this, he drew up a sketch of his system of 

 botany, and submitted it to Dr. Celsius, who showed it to Professor Rudbeck. The 

 latter was so pleased with it, that he appointed him tutor to his children, and eventually 

 employed him as his assistant in lecturing.* He lectured publicly, improved the 

 garden, gave botanical excursions in the vicinity of Upsala, and commenced several 

 of his works. 



fame was now established, and the Royal Academy entrusted him with the care 

 of the scientific expedition to Lapland, which started on the 13th of May, 1732, 

 Linnaeus being only twenty-five years of age. In this expedition he encountered many 

 hard-hips and dangers, travelled over the greater part of Lapland, and, skirting the 

 borders of Norway, returned to Upsala by the Gulf of Bothnia, having travelled more 

 than 4.000 miles. He arranged the plants, and other natural productions collected 

 during the journey, and lectured publicly upon the result of the expedition. In 1736 



.ted England, afterwards repaired to Holland, where he remained some time, 



: sited Paris, and, in 1739, returned to Stockholm, where he took up his residence 

 as a physician, having married the daughter of Dr. Moreus. In 1741, he was appointed 

 professor of medicine at Upsala, and by a private arrangement with Dr. Rosen, 



^or of botany, he effected an exchange, receiving the superintendence of the 

 Botanic Garden, and charge of the Natural History department. In 1758, he was 

 created a knight of the order of the Polar Star, by King Frederic Adolphus of Sweden, 

 was admitted member of most of the scientific societies of Kurope ; and, in 176*1, having 

 received letters of nobility from the king, his name was changed to Von Linne*. His 

 various appointments and an excellent practice placed him in affluent circumstances, 

 and he therefore purchased the villa of llarmanby, about a league from Up-ala, where 

 he spent the last fifteen years of his life, and died on the 10th of January, 1778, in the 

 seventy-first year of his age. He was buried at Upsala, near the main door of the 

 cathedral, with his wife by his side, under a stone, without tun Ins name upon it; but 

 at a short distance from the grave there is a bust of the great naturalist, in ultu rclitvo, on 

 black marble, with the following inscription engraved on a tablet of Swedish porphyn : 



BOTANICORUM PRINCIPE, 



AMICI ET DISCIPULI. 



M.DCC.XCV1II. 



memory was most comprehensive, seizing upon the useful, and rejecting the 

 i; and his love of order most remarkable. " In winter," he tells us in !;: 

 "he si lie to six; in summer, from ten to three," and that, as soon as he 



felt tired, he ceased to study. He noted everything in its proper place immediately, 

 As a teacher, he was kind, made himself easily understood, 



and never f.nled to interest his pupil* in the subject under eonsideratinn. He was 

 frugal in hi living, and very t iiuught much, read slowly, and was most devout. 



OR \ MI has given his pupils this sketch of the life of one of tht 



most celebrated naturalists, because it in instructive both to the young and more aged: 



him ; the latter to repair l!n ir misspent time, 

 by studying the great kingdoms of nature around 



i niitr t " w, - I . Variant's TrcaUtt on Ikt Suet of PtanU, which he 



read * short tune before it* ilmw up hi* kttch. 



