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he went to Paris, saw the Jussieus and Reaumur, 

 and was admitted a coresponding member of the 

 Academy of Science. Leaving Paris, he went 

 northwards to see his father, and then to his love. 

 The course of true love had run very crookedly, 

 for a mutual friend, who had been the medium of 

 the correspondence of the lovers, fell in love with 

 the lady himself. She was true, however, and they 

 were finally betrothed. It was strange that the 

 greatest botanist of the day could not get a living 

 out of his science, and it is not to the credit of his 

 native country. Again Linnaeus had to take to 

 physic, and settling at Stockholm, found that the 

 people would not trust him with the cure of their 

 dogs, much less with that of themselves. Abroad 

 he had been honoured everywhere, and in his own 

 country he was a nobody. All of a sudden things 

 changed, he cured somebody, and everybody went 

 to him to be cured. Then his star began to shine, 

 the people of Upsala began to remember him. 

 Count Tessin, who had been tutor to the King of 

 Sweden, and who was a lover of natural history, 

 procured him a salary of two hundred ducats a 

 year, on condition that he would give public 

 lectures on botany and mineralogy. Linnaeus wrote 

 of this good friend : " He received me, a stranger, 

 on my return ; he obtained me a salary from the 

 States, the appointment of physician to the 

 Admiralty, the professorship of Botany at Upsala, 

 the title of Dean of the College of Physicians, the 

 favour of two kings, and recommended me by a 



