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plant which he and other botanists considered to have 

 three stamens. On examination it proved to have only 

 one, as Linnaeus had said. * Oh, it may be so acciden- 

 tally in a single flower,' said the professor; but on 

 examining a number of them, it was found to be the 

 rule, as Linnaeus had stated it. Dillenius, though slow 

 to be convinced, was not above learning truths he did 

 not yet know. He detained Linnaeus several days, and 

 promised him what he had before denied that he should 

 have the plants Clifford was so anxious to procure. 1 



The professor, now somewhat softened, invited the 

 Swede's inspection of his own and the Sherardian col- 

 lections, and here showed him what would interest him 

 much. 



The Linnaean Society possesses a few of Kudbeck's 

 blocks, engraved on rough wood which looks like pine. 



At Upsala, as we know, under Rudbeck senior, 

 was laid the foundation of what is justly called * the 

 great Swedish school of natural history,' when in 1702 

 a fire reduced almost all the city to ashes, and the 

 works of E/udbeck, with a thousand blocks already cut, 

 and the materials for his work on the natural history of 

 Lapland, were destroyed. All that remained of the 

 great work the ' Campi Elysii,' folio, were a few copies 

 of the second volume, and three only of the first, one of 

 which is in the Sherardian Library at Oxford. The 

 work was planned to be done in twelve volumes. The 



1 This story is given, among the anecdotes related by Linnseus 

 himself, written in Latin, by Dr. Gieseke. 



