28 CAROLUS LINNMUS 



having assumed as it were sponsorship for 

 Linnaeus as candidate for a career in science, 

 placed in his hands the first book of real 

 botany that the youth had ever seen, and 

 taught him how to begin to be a botanist; intro- 

 duced him to the illustrious Tournefort, who 

 at once became the lodestar of Linnaeus's 

 own genius for years to come. Yet to the 

 end of Linnseus's days there was no genus 

 Rothmania. Professor Thunberg, once a pupil 

 of Linna3us at Upsala, and long afterwards 

 a successor of his in the chair of botany there, 

 made tardy reparation to the neglected mem- 

 ory of Dr. Rothman, after both benefactor 

 and beneficiary were dead. 



After one year under Dr. Rothman's patron- 

 age and instruction it was thought advisable 

 that Linnaus should enter the university at 

 Lund. In connection with the transfer from 

 Wexio to Lund there was an illustration of 

 how, in the extremities of their need, fortune 

 favors at every turn the men of genius and of 

 high destiny. It was requisite that the candi- 

 date should carry a formal letter of transfer 

 from the head master of Wexio Academy to 

 the rector of the University at Lund. The 

 head of the Wexio school, a professor of divin- 

 ity, must have been the self-same who, one 



