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with the public lectures. But there was no other 

 person so proper. 1 



This was in 1730. The young student of twenty- 

 three supplied the aged professor's place with every mark 

 of approbation. The botanical lectures became the talk 

 of Upsala and the attraction of the university. The viva- 

 city of Carl's instructions and the novelty of their matter 

 charmed his audience, accompanied as these were by all 

 the graces of delivery, and the secret of oratory to be in 

 earnest. His heart was in the work, his handsome face 

 glowing with the love of lovely things as he joyfully 

 taught the students what his superior talent had enabled 

 him to discover. They relished it as our generation 

 has enjoyed receiving light at Ruskin's hands. The 

 effect of his teaching was heightened by the beauty 

 of his voice and diction, and the enthusiasm that fired 

 and enlivened his whole frame, giving a dignity to his 

 personal appearance which had never been remarked 

 before. He seemed born for a professor. The young 

 lecturer himself gained by his residence with Rudbeck 

 an extensive acquaintance with ornithology a great 

 conquest for one who took the whole of nature for his 

 province ; and he now laid the foundation of several of his 

 works the ' Bibliotheca Botanica,' ' Classes et Genera 

 Plantarum ' ; for which works Professor Rudbeck's fine 

 collection of books and drawings was of infinite use. 



His good fortune did not come single. When one 

 person has made a discovery (of a person, place, or thing) 

 1 Diary. 



