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publicly in the botanic garden. The candi- 

 date had not been three years in residence, and 

 Professor Roberg expressed it as his opinion 

 that the precedent was a dangerous one to 

 have established. The lectures were begun, 

 and Linnaeus had a throng of students of the 

 best class, among sons of some of the uni- 

 versity professors; and he was now able to 

 clothe himself comfortably. This all happened 

 at a time when a promising instructor, Nils 

 Rosen, had lately gone abroad on a two years' 

 leave to obtain the doctorate in medicine. 

 A less competent young man had been dele- 

 gated to take Rosen's work during his absence. 

 Linnaeus, by his superior learning and per- 

 sonal magnetism, appears quite innocently 

 to have drawn away his students. There 

 would be trouble in store for Linn^us 

 whensoever Rosen should return. It is a 

 sad truth that, in science as elsewhere in 

 this world, the mediocre man in higher 

 position must hate and if possible persecute 

 the superior man in lower station, and that 

 for his very superiority, if for nothing else. 

 Rosen, on his return from abroad, with the 

 doctor's degree won, besought of old Pro- 

 fessor Rudbeck permission to teach botany 

 himself, hoping thereby to draw from docent 



