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tion of Linnaeus stood in the way of his own fame, and 

 attracted to the new doctrines some of Rosen's own pupils, 

 determined to suppress his competitor. Sir J. E. Smith, 

 who also speaks strongly on the mean jealousy of Rosen in 

 surreptitiously copying Linnaeus's botanical manuscripts, 

 of which he had the forced loan, mentions as ' the basest 

 action of Rosen, and which proved envy to be the sole 

 source of his conduct, this, that, having married the 

 niece of the archbishop, he obtained through his lord- 

 ship's means an order from the chancellor to prohibit 

 all private medical lectures in the university. This, for 

 which there could be no motives but conscious inferiority 

 and malice, deprived Linnaeus of his only means of sub- 

 sistence, and the students of any information which 

 might endanger their reverence for his rival.' Smith is 

 very bitter on the prosperous nephew of an archbishop. 



c Rosen procured an edict from the Chancellor 

 Cronhjelm, that a medical teacher should never be 

 received in the university of Upsala to the prejudice 

 of the adjunctus.' 1 



There was no precedent, it would seem, concerning 

 private lectures. Linnaeus in his tabular summary says : 

 ' 1733. Lectured privately on mineralogy he was 

 the first person who had done so at Upsala.' 2 The re- 

 gulation concerning public lectures, it appears, existed 

 before, but had fallen into abeyance or been forgotten 

 through there being no outsider competent to lecture, 

 as we hear that Rosen informed against his rival c before 

 1 Diary. 2 Notes made by Linnaeus for his biography. 



