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he seemed to live on everything. He had a stock of 

 wealth in his mind not that which is properly termed 

 content, for in truth he was not to be contained at all, 

 but overflowed all bounds by the force of a magnificent 

 self-delusion.' Artedi took to himself the realm of 

 fishes, which Linnaeus willingly ' conveyanced ' to him ; 

 but when Artedi required a province of his friend's own 

 particular kingdom, and wished to take the umbelli- 

 ferous plants under his rule, this was a harder conces- 

 sion to friendship. 



The two friends were always finding something 

 fresh, acquiring property too a treasure-chest but of 

 a sort whose key was in their mind. There is nothing 

 like having little or no cash for making one's collections 

 of value. One buys no trash, nothing that salesmen of 

 curiosities consider suitable for amateurs. One gleans, 

 not from books, but from the substances around, com- 

 pleting an area, exhausting the neighbourhood, from its 

 chalk-hills to its clay-beds. Each saw himself in the 

 glass of his friend's admiring mind, and each felt comfort 

 in the possession of commanding talent. They must 

 rise, and they would. 



1 Or, staggered only at their own vast wits,' no wonder 

 if these two students felt stuck-up, over-elated at times, 

 when they considered the education the rest of the 

 fellows were getting in the university. Professor Hud- 

 beck exhibited to the students his beautifully coloured 

 drawings of birds, and Professor Koberg lectured on the 

 problems of Aristotle according to the principles of Des 



