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torial possessions there to be worth investi- 

 gating from scientific and economic points 

 of view. 



It was now soon arranged that Linnaeus, 

 under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences 

 at Upsala, should make an expedition to 

 Lapland for purposes of scientific exploration. 

 He set forth from Upsala on the thirteenth 

 of May, 1732, returning late in autumn. It 

 had been a journey of some 2500 miles, made 

 alone, for the most part, and almost every- 

 where on foot; but this was one of the most 

 fruitful seasons of his whole life, though he 

 was now but twenty-five years of age. His 

 Flora Lapponica, together with the narrative 

 of the journey, are among the most instructive 

 and fascinating reports of a scientific expedi- 

 tion ever written. In the day when they were 

 new they were unequalled in the literature of 

 scientific travel; and the Flora Lapponica 

 would have secured a deathless fame to 

 any botanist, even if he had written nothing 

 else. 



JOURNEY TO GERMANY AND HOLLAND 



After the return from Lapland the next 

 two years were passed in teaching publicly 



