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1 Voluit et noluit,' he would, and yet he would not, 

 writes the impatient lover to a friend of Dr. Moraeus. 

 Himself a successful doctor, Morseus could not bear the 

 notion of marrying his daughter to a man of science, in 

 its broad sense, without any fixed and definite line of 

 practice. He counselled Linnaeus to take the degree of 

 doctor of medicine, which necessarily involved his going 

 abroad, as at that epoch the university of Upsala 

 granted no degrees to her own students. 1 Swedish 

 students at that time used to graduate in some 

 foreign university, and, like most of his countrymen, 

 Linnaeus fixed upon Harderwyk in Holland, as the 

 cheapest place. But cheap as it was, he had not the 

 capital to sink in the preliminary expenses, including 

 the journey thither. He was in possession of thirty- 

 six golden ducats, 2 earned and saved. His Wrede 

 pension amounted to sixty dollars, 3 reckoned at 5Z., per 



1 The university of Upsala does not (now) confer degrees unless 

 the recipient of the honour has proved his capacity by passing a 

 searching examination, no exception being made in the stringent 

 enforcement of this wise regulation. Du CHAILLU. 



1 Linnaeus speaks of having 36 nummi aurei meaning ducats, 

 the usual gold currency of Sweden. Nummus aureus, the single ducar, 

 nearly as large as a sovereign, but thinner and lighter than our 

 IQs. piece; value 9s. of our money. It weighs 54 grs. troy; our 

 half -sovereign weighs 60 grs. The Swedish gold coins were double, 

 single, and half-ducats. ' Exivi patria triginta sex nummis aureis 

 dives ' are Linnaeus's own words. 



8 Charles XII. struck large pieces of copper and called them 

 copper dollars. They went down immediately in value. This 

 causes great difficulty in reckoning the money values of that 

 century. The large copper pieces in general, but more particularly 

 the two-dahler pieces, are called plates (plStar). 



