126 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



another will usually follow in his wake, the brilliant 

 trail of light being visible and self-evident. Not only 

 was Preutz obliged to give way to Linnaeus, who thus, 

 after little over two years' residence at Upsala, was 

 judged qualified to teach the science of botany, but 

 Rudbeck, knowing him to be tutor to Dean Celsius's 

 children, engaged him in the like capacity to his own 

 sons by his second wife. Carl now said grace before full 

 meals ; and as the students entertained the most marked 

 contempt for Preutz's abilities, many of them as Let- 

 strom, Sohlberg, and Archiater Rudbeck's first wife's son, 

 Johan Olof put themselves under the private instruc- 

 tions of Linnseus. The presents they made him enabled 

 him to assume a more decent appearance in his dress. 1 

 Dress for gentlemen was a more important and exten- 

 sive thing than it is now, involving ruffles and em- 

 broidery and much fine linen. As adjunctus oh 

 triumph of all ! he held Rosen's very post. 



Now Carl had enough to do ; what with the ' Hiero- 

 botanicon,' lecturing for Rudbeck, these tutorships, and 

 his private pupils, who flocked to him so soon as he did 

 not need them, and his own books, to say nothing of 

 his researches tacked on to his regular studies in 

 medicine, he was in a whirlwind of work. ' His morn- 

 ings were passed in giving instruction to pupils and 

 his evenings in composing the new system and meditat- 

 ing a general reform of botanical science. He began his 

 " Bibliotheca Botanica," " Classes Plantarum," " Critica 

 1 Autobiography. 



