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inents were covered with folio plates out of botanical works ; the first with 

 those out of Linnaeus's Decas Plantnrum rcmorum horti U-psaUenm ; and the 

 second with coloured plates out of other splendid works. The following 

 sentence is seen over the door of the outer apartment : — " Innocue viventes 

 Niimen adest.'" " Living harmlessly in the sight of God." There were, also, 

 various likenesses of Linnaeus, not only in oils (one of which had this inscrij^- 

 tion : "EJigiei similis"), but also in copper engravings, silhouettes, and wax. 

 We likewise saw likenesses of Banks and Solander in a kind of cameos {kameen^. 

 There were tea and coiFee services, vases, &c., of China, from the East Indies, 

 ornamented with painted shoots Qrmken) of the LinnaeV^ borealis. On 

 small pedestals in the corners of the room stood mythological figures in gyp- 

 sum, very much gilt, and of tolerable workmanship ; also two Venuses close 

 by them. Linnsers's academical hat (^doctor-hut), pretty much worn, yet in 

 good preservation, lay on a table, as if it had but just been placed there. It 

 ■was made of green silk stuff, turned up on three sides, and ornamented with 

 bows of red ribbon at the corners. Whether this was the same hat that Lin- 

 naeus wore at his promotion in Harderwyk, in Holland, I cannot determine ; 

 I only remember hearing, as a kind of tradition, that sometimes, when Lin- 

 naeus was promoter in Upsal, the young doctors wore hats of these lively 

 colours. The interior room contained the bed of Linnaeus, with very rich 

 silk curtains from the East Indies, on which were stamped representations of 

 flowers. The coat of arms of Linnaeus hung over the door of the third room. 

 Articles of furniture ; chairs with backs as high as a man, sofas in the same 

 taste, and tables with tortuous feet, were found in all the rooms, and of the 

 same antiquity. A spacious dining-room occupied nearly the half of the 

 house ; the staircase was also more convenient than was usual at that time in 

 small wooden houses. Probably Linnaeus built this house entirely according 

 to his own taste, which may be confirmed from what he wrote in his notes 

 in the year 1762 : — " Linnaeus built at Hammarby, so that the children might 

 have a place of abode, as he felt himself growing weak." 



On the highest point of the above-mentioned rock stands the Linncean 

 Museum of Natural History, established in 17G8 : it is a four-cornered stone 

 building, one story high, with windows on three sides, and a four-cornered 

 pointed roof, not unlike that of a small chapel. A somewhat beaten path led 

 to it between young firs ; a proof that, in the time of Linnaeus, few trees stood 

 on that place. The Linnaean arms, painted on porcelain, are built in the 

 wall over the entrance. 



It was here that Linnaeus deposited his valuable collection of every depart- 

 ment of natural history, called by himself Museum Hammarbj-ense. It was 

 also an auditorium, in which, during the academical occasions, he delivered 

 lectures eight hours every day ; and communicated his most important dis- 

 coveries to a select audience, who lodged with the neighbouring peasantry, so 

 as to be always present at these lectures, which were venerated as the sayings 

 of an oracle. He received here many learned men from other countries, and 

 Maecenases from all Europe. Amongst these, Linnaeus himself mentions a 

 Lord Baltimore, a naturalist and author, who, on his departure, presented 

 him with a golden snuff box, weighing a hundred ducats j but, as he did not 

 think his gratitude sufficiently manifested by it, he afterwards sent him a 

 present of 800 ducats. (See Hedin's liecollcclions of the two Linnccuses, Father 

 mid Son). The objects of natural history were no longer found in this 

 Museum ; but the chair (/ehr/istuhl), and a three-legged tressel, with a board 

 for writing on fastened on the top, still stood there, surrounded with the 

 benches for the audience. 



This chair, once of greater consequence than the three-footed Delphic chair, 

 was the throne of the mighty Prince of Nature, from which he governed 

 the flowers of the world {bluvienwelt), according to the laws he had himscli 

 enacted, which he never trespassed, and which, in their fundamental prin- 

 ciples, do not require improvement or alteration. 



On descending from the height, we visited a small level terrace betweeit 



