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ruins of old Kudbeck's work and wished the whole 

 could be restored. One of the elder Rudbeck's works 

 he did restore. 1 ' Owing to Rudbeck's age and infirmi- 

 ties the botanic garden had fallen into a very low con- 

 dition. Carl caused the garden to be entirely altered 

 and planted with the rarest species he could procure, 

 both indigenous and exotic, according to a method of 

 his own. He also instituted botanical excursions with 

 his pupils, who had become numerous. To hear all this 

 must have rejoiced his father. It was, indeed, a hopeful 

 change that Carl was now thought capable of teaching the 

 science of botany, and placed virtually at the head of an 

 establishment in which a year before he had applied for 

 the situation of gardener. Besides botany ' it was de- 

 creed,' says Stoever's quaint translator, ; that he should 

 establish a better order in the other reigns of nature, 

 especially among the classes of the animal reign.' One 

 would think he was translating from the French. 



We hear less of Artedi now. ' We have been brothers, 

 and henceforth the world will rise between us ; ' 2 but 

 success did not harden Carl's heart, nor make him 

 unmindful of his beloved friend ; while of Celsius he 

 never spoke but in terms of reverence and warmest 

 admiration. Carl possessed greatly the arts of winning 

 and keeping affection. 



In Linnaeus's eagerness to hear all that the garru- 

 lous Rudbeck loved to tell of his father's travels in 

 Lapland, which it had been left him as a sacred legacy to 

 1 Diary. 2 Paracelsus. 



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