TAKES HIS DOCTOR'S DEGREE IN HOLLAND 28.3 



he was admitted to the doctor's degree on the \\ th of 

 June. I dare say the aspect of the ground in Holland 

 and on the journey down added many ideas to his thesis, 

 already prepared in Sweden. Linnaeus had a keen eye 

 for country and climate from the hygienic point of view. 

 In the dedication of the ' Hypothesis Nova de Febrium 

 Intermittentium Causa,' among his Maecenates and 

 Patrones we find the names of Rudbeck, Rothman, 

 Stobaeus, Morgeus, &c., and Rosen. The hypothesis 

 here advanced, most correctly so denominated, is truly 

 Boerhaavian. 1 



Here Linnaeus won his doctor's hat, which is still 

 preserved in his house at Hammarby, near Upsala. It 

 is of greenish drab felt that once was green, turned up 

 on three sides, with a pinkish bow that once was a red 

 cockade. The university of Harderwyk, now long since 

 swept away, was founded in 1372. In 1441 it contained 

 more than three hundred foreign students. Harderwyk 

 University gained a justly merited celebrity before it 

 disappeared ; Boerhaave and Linnaeus, who have adorned 

 the whole human race, graduated here. 2 The marble bust 

 of Linnaeus stands in a niche in a red-brick octagonal 

 tower 3 standing by the site of the former botanic garden 

 (not that of an ancient cloister, as Havard asserts), 

 beneath a grove of tall trees which play ^Eolian har- 

 monies at eventide as the inland sea breeze wakes the 

 memories of Harderwyk's palmy days. 



Harderwyk, a town of 5,000 inhabitants, now the 

 1 Smith. 2 Havard. * Called the Linnaeus Tower. 



