95 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



later in a letter to Haller l as the only botanist of his 

 country, and Carl had hoped to profit by his learning. 

 Celsius at this time was away on official business at 

 Stockholm, so that Carl was obliged to continue his 

 favourite study with no guidance save that of his 

 own genius and the works of the men of the last 

 two centuries in fact, the same materials that Celsius 

 himself had ; but he was minus Celsius' years of experi- 

 ence. 



A year passed. With his vivacity of temperament, 

 he could not manage his small finances to advantage 

 he was too sanguine he felt too sure of immediately 

 conquering fortune somehow. Well as he had been 

 trained in economy, it is difficult to square SI. with 

 a journey, clothes, board, lodging, and tuition for a 

 year. It is not very easy to do it for 40Z. by a popular 

 fellow, naturally open-handed, whose pleasant speech, 

 and face beaming with frankest good-humour, made him 

 courted by the pleasure-loving youths of the university. 



A short time before Carl came northward, his rival 

 at Lund, Nils Rosen, had been appointed adjunctus of 

 the faculty of medicine at Upsala ; he laughed at 

 LinnaBus's hopes of that pension for his talents which 

 Rothman had encouraged him to look for. The pro- 

 fessors looked coldly on one who brought no ready- 

 made reputation with him, and who seemed unlikely to 

 do them credit, as he only pursued an inferior or inci- 

 dental branch of learning for botany, until Carl made 

 1 Dated from Hartecainp, near Leyden, May 1737. 



