214 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



comforts, and carry only tools and necessaries. ' Know- 

 ledge is easily borne about,' said Nasman, the proverbial 

 philosopher of the party. 



For organisation Linnaeus had a masterly talent, 

 applying it to the arts of peace. He classified men as 

 he classified other natural history specimens by their 

 qualities and capacities. He set about his work in a 

 workmanlike manner. 



He was accompanied by seven young naturalists, 

 whom he selected from a crowd of volunteers. He enacted 

 the laws and regulations of their course, and he ap- 

 pointed to every member his functions, to each one his 

 manual and scientific as well as his administrative 

 work. To each one a distinct department was assigned, 

 and a report was given in at the end of every day's 

 journey according to written rules which had been pre- 

 pared before starting, for the due observance of which 

 every member made himself answerable. 



No writers of Linnaeus's life have given us his 

 travels ; written in Latin or in Swedish, they have never 

 been translated, except a few of them into German, and 

 the Lapland journey into English. The unpublished 

 journal of this Dalecarlian tour still exists, locked up, 

 lying asleep, hitherto, in the Swedish tongue. 



Honest old Stoever never professed to work upon 

 the Swedish records, but he toiled diligently through 

 the Latin (excepting what he could not get at in Sir 

 J. Smith's collection), and with true German pains- 

 takingness which seems a right German sort of word 



