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CHAPTER IV. 



THE LIFE OF LINN.EUS {Coiltiimed). 



The publication and reception of the artificial system of 

 classifying plants. 



LiNN^US had many difficulties to contend with, 

 however. He found his old rival, Rosen, at work ; 

 and Linnaeus accuses this man of the meanness of 

 obtaining, partly by entreaty, partly by threats, his 

 manuscript lectures on botany, which he valued 

 more than anything he possessed, and which he 

 afterwards detected his rival in copying. This 

 formidable enemy next proceeded to prevent 

 Linnaeus from obtaining the means of subsistence. 

 There was no room for the young botanist at 

 Upsala, and, indeed, botany appeared to be a bad 

 profession. So he turned again to mineralogy, and 

 got up a students' expedition to Fahlun and Dale- 

 carlia. He settled down at Fahlun for a while as 

 a teacher, and found himself as it were in a new 

 world, where everybody loved and assisted him. He 

 earned money by his medical knowledge. The 



