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by the University of Upsal : and he was obliged to 

 the lady who afterwards became his wife, for the 

 money which enabled him to graduate at Leyden*. 

 It was not till near the decline of his life, that his 

 sovereign conferred on him those honours, which, 

 if they could not add to his justly acquired fame, 

 were enviable marks of the admiration which his 

 talents procured for him in his own country. In 

 1735, two of his earlier publications, the Sy sterna 

 Naturce and Fundamenta Botanica, appeared ; and 

 in 1737 he published five of his works, the Cri- 

 tica Bo fan lea, Genera Plant arum, Hortus Clif- 

 fortianus, Flora Lapponica, and Methodus Sexu- 

 alis; any one of which would have been sufficient 

 to have conferred lasting celebrity on its author. 

 As his fame extended, he was invited by the King of 

 Spain to settle in his dominions, but declined the 

 invitation ; and was amply indemnified by the 

 honours which his own sovereign conferred upon 

 him. He was created a Baronet, and afterwards 

 Archiator, or Dean of the College of Physicians ; 

 and a Knight of the Polar Star, some time before 

 his death, which happened on the 8th of January, 

 1778. His system, the one which is now, with 

 some modifications, generally adopted, is founded 

 on truth and nature. It has been improved and 



* This lady was Elizabeth Moreens, the (laughter of a phy- 

 sician at Fahlun. She presented him with one hundred dollars, 

 the savings of her pocket-money, to enable him to graduate. 



