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abroad, and having perfected himself in anatomy and 

 the practice of medicine, got into universal request, 

 there being no other practitioner at Upsala. He like- 

 wise commenced a course of lectures on a branch con- 

 nected with Professor Rudbeck's office. As the latter 

 was seventy years of age there was a good prospect of 

 his being chosen Rudbeck's successor, and of his having 

 no competitor unless Linnaeus got forward. He (Rosen) 

 also applied for permission to lecture publicly on botany, 

 but Rudbeck was unwilling to trust this department to 

 him, as he had never studied it. Rosen tried to per- 

 suade Linnaeus to give up the lectures to him sponta- 

 neously, which Linnaeus would have done had Rudbeck 

 consented to it. Thus Linnaeus had scarcely surmounted 

 poverty before he became an object of envy a passion 

 that played him too many tricks, of no use to be mentioned 

 here. The faithless wife of the librarian Norrelius lived 

 at this time in Rudbeck's house, and by her Linnaeus 

 was made so odious to his patroness ' [Rudbeck's 

 wife] ' that he could no longer stay there ; and as Rud- 

 beck had often related to him the curious facts he had 

 noticed and the plants he had discovered on his travels 

 in Lapland, Linnaeus conceived a great inclination to 

 visit that country. The secretary of the academy, the 

 Master of Arts, Andres Celsius ' [who four years later, 

 1736, himself visited that country] 'strongly recom- 

 mended him to go there.' l The machinations of his 

 enemies prevailed, and Rosen, who had never been 

 1 Diary. 



