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Linnseus all his students. Rudbeck declined 

 to consider such a proposition, stating frankly 

 that Dr. Rosen was hardly very well pre- 

 pared to instruct in botany. Rosen's next 

 move was successful. He procured the passage 

 of an official regulation to the effect that no 

 undergraduate should be permitted to lecture 

 publicly, to the prejudice of a regularly 

 appointed instructor. Such an instructor 

 there was in the person of the young man 

 who had been appointed to teach in Rosen's 

 place while he was absent. Thus was Linnseus 

 deprived of the means of living any longer 

 at Upsala. 



JOURNEY TO LAPLAND 



Inasmuch as his lecturing in the botanic 

 garden had been under Rudbeck's juris- 

 diction, and the latter had become much 

 attached to the young man, he had taken 

 him into his own household. Rudbeck him- 

 self had been the earliest botanical explorer 

 of Lapland, and, by frequent rehearsal of the 

 wonders he had seen in that wild hyperborean 

 realm, he had enkindled in the young Linnasus 

 a keen desire to go there. The Swedish 

 government had long thought its own terri- 



