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of adjunctus in the medical faculty at Lund was now 

 instituted, and Linnaeus endeavoured to obtain it at 

 the urgent desire of Professor Rudbeck. Rosen was at 

 this time (1733) practising at Wiksberg, where people 

 went to drink the mineral waters. The chancellor of 

 the university, Count Carl Gyllenborg, was of the 

 number, and consequently Linnaeus stood no chance 

 against Wallerius, who obtained the office of adjunctus, 

 though it was of less advantage to him than it would 

 have been to Linnaeus.' 



Disappointed in his views of medical advancement, 

 Linnaeus turned his attention to mineralogy, one of the 

 kingdoms of his universal empire. 1 



Being prohibited from publicly lecturing, Linnaeus 

 accepted the invitation of some of his former pupils to ac- 

 company them to the mines of Falun and other places. 



On his return from Lapland Linnaeus paid par- 

 ticular attention to mineralogy, which was the prin- 

 cipal reason of his visiting the district of mines a 

 spot the most favourable of all others for acquiring that 

 knowledge of minerals which could alone enable him to 

 form a correct system.' 2 He was impressed, besides, 

 with the interdependence of the natural sciences. 



At the end of the year 1733 Linnaeus went to the 

 mine district called in Sweden Bergslag, in a dreary 

 desolate country resembling the bleak high Cornish 



1 In 1733 he studied mineralogy and the docimastic art. Encyl. 

 Brit., eighth edition. 



2 Diary. 



