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could obtain only a chance meal, and covered up 

 the holes in his torn shoes ! 



He bought two estates, living at one of them 

 Hammerby for fifteen years. In 1774, when he 

 was sixty-seven, he suffered an attack 6f apoplexy 

 in the Botanical Garden, and, two years later, 

 another stroke made him a paralytic. When he 

 could no longer walk, he used to be carried to his 

 museum, and look long and earnestly at his treas- 

 ures, gathered from every clime. His memory so 

 failed him that he mixed the Greek and Latin let- 

 ters, and forgot even his own name. On the 10th 

 of January, 1778, death came to him in his sleep. 



The university went into mourning, the king 

 made a public address, and the whole nation re- 

 garded it as an irreparable loss. His herbarium 

 and library were sold, after a time, by the wife, to 

 Sir James E. Smith, the founder of the Linnaean 

 Society, of London, where these treasures are now 

 to be seen, and most of the one hundred and eighty 

 works which he published during forty-five years. 

 It is said that the King of Sweden, on learning 

 that the work of Linnaeus was going out of the 

 country, sent a man-of-war to recover it, but with- 

 out avail. 



Linnaeus was small in body, with large head, and 

 the bright, piercing eyes which usually characterize 

 men and women of genius. 



Of his six children, the oldest soon became pro- 

 fessor of botany, to assist, and then succeed, his 

 father, but he lacked the parent's just and honora- 



