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squirrels and winter-clad foxes from Lapland, besides 

 minerals, shells, plants, birds, and other creatures, each 

 one a specimen of a vast family out in the wide world. 

 The present botanical garden of Lund did not then 

 exist. The botanical garden of Carl's time flourished 

 upon what is now a waste space in the form of a ne- 

 glected shrubbery, where a few ancient cypresses with 

 gnarled stems, old enough to have known Linnaeus, 

 grow at the back of the old university building l where 

 Linngeus studied. This is an oblong brick building 

 of the Kenaissance mingled with a bastard Roman- 

 esque, in three storeys, with quadrangular turrets 

 at the angles and a rounded tower in the centre, 

 loftier by a cornice and an additional storey than the 

 main building. This central tower has a pure Roman- 

 esque portal by which a winding staircase leads to the 

 library 2 and reading-room. The books and pamphlets 

 are arranged in open frames reaching to the roof. The 

 grove of horse-chestnuts in front of this building must 

 have been respectable young trees in Linnaeus's time. 



A small red building close by, led up to by a flight 

 of steps, also near the large red-brick mansion of the 

 Akademiska Forening, is the Kultur Historiska, one of 

 the most interesting spots in Lund to Linnaeus, though 

 it might now be overlooked among the more elegant 

 white stone buildings of the new university, standing 

 on a terraced pedestal of granite, in Vitruvian Classical 

 style, with pediments and sphynges above the cornice of 



1 Curia Lundensis. 2 Universitets Bibliotekets. 



