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... BY ... 



THOMAS CONRAD PORTER, 



OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 



Carolus Linnaeus, or Karl von Linne, the most 

 illustrious student and reformer of modern times in 

 the domain of natural history, was born in 1707, at 

 Raeshult, a village in the south of Sweden. Having 

 fought his way against great odds from a low estate 

 up to fame and fortune, the period of his productive 

 activity as a scientist extended from the year 1736 to 

 the day of his death in 1778. In 1741 he attained 

 the highest goal of his ambition, when called to the 

 Chair of Botany in the University of Upsala and 

 raised to the rank of the hereditary nobility of the 

 realm. 



Linnaeus was an indefatigable toiler, not in the 



