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upon me but Siegesbecks! I took my leave of 

 Flora, condemned my too-numerous observa- 

 tions a thousand times over to eternal oblivion, 

 and swore never to give any answer to Sieges- 

 beck." 



APPOINTED PROFESSOR AT UPSALA 



Court influence now procured him the 

 comfortable position of Physician to the 

 Admiralty. After that the death of Dr. 

 Roberg, professor of medicine at Upsala, 

 opened the way to Linnaeus' s promotion to 

 a professorship at that university. It was 

 that of medicine, and that of botany was, 

 at the time, held by Linnseus's former antag- 

 onist Rosen. The two professors, now equal 

 in official rank, became reconciled and, with 

 the full consent of the authorities, exchanged 

 professorships. Linnsaus was now again a 

 botanist. He was still a young man, only 

 some thirty-four years of age, and had lived 

 out not quite half his days. The after years, 

 those of fruition, did not produce as much of 

 importance to botany as the earlier period 

 had yielded. There came out in 1751 the 

 Philosophia Botanica, partly of the nature 

 of a recension and enlargement of two of his 



