204 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



finding of a thing, but the making something out of it 

 after it is found, that is of consequence/ l 



Reuterholm meant to put Linngeus to use likewise. 

 He persuaded him to undertake the travelling tutorship of 

 his two sons through Dalecarlia and over the Dalecarlian 

 Alps to Norway an idea which soon after enlarged 

 itself into having a complete survey of the province, in 

 every department of its natural history, undertaken at 

 the governor's expense a patriotic work, by which 

 also Baron Beuterholm expected largely to profit. But 

 nothing was definitively settled about the undertaking, 

 and the idea went to sleep during the night of the 

 Swedish winter. 



Linnasus remained a whole month at Falun, and 

 then returned to Upsala. 



' The very distinction he had so justly acquired turned 

 out to his prejudice. Envy and rivalship combined with 

 self-interest gave rise to all the violence of animosity. 

 Linnasus had not taken his degree, which according to 

 the Swedish custom must always be taken abroad, and 

 Linnaeus was too poor to travel. This excluded him from 

 the right of delivering public lectures, which is the exclu- 

 sive privilege of doctors. He was too obnoxious to his com- 

 petitors, who were determined to check his rising fame.' 2 



The applause which he received was unendurable to 

 Rosen, now (in 1734) become a more formidable enemy 

 through his marriage with the niece of the Archbishop of 

 Upsala. 3 Rosen, conceiving that the genius and reputa- 



1 J. E. Lowell. 2 Stoever. s Turton. 



