LIFE AT STOCKHOLM 81 



scarcely have consented to go afloat so close upon his 

 intended marriage. 



'Within one month, therefore, Linnaeus was ap- 

 pointed a public teacher at the House of Nobles, with 

 a pension ; physician to the Navy, with pay ; and first 

 president of the Academy, with distinction.' l 



1 Count Tessin offered Linnaeus not only to live in his 

 (the Count's) house, in the same apartment where he 

 himself used to lodge when he was a bachelor, but also 

 to eat at his table, where the greatest men in the king- 

 dom met during the Diet.' a This was a more genial 

 circle than the exclusively scientific society Linnaeus 

 had met with in Holland ; here at least they could all 

 speak Swedish. 



As this was the Diet when the two parties of Hats 

 and Caps 3 chiefly began, Linnaeus, who took the same 

 side as Count Tessin, was jokingly styled in general by 

 the Hats their Archiater ; from which circumstance, as no- 

 thing succeeds like success, Linnaeus's practice increased 

 so much that he alone had as much as all the other phy- 

 sicians collectively, and from this time was in receipt 

 of as much as 9,000 copper dollars 4 at Stockholm. 



This was a mighty fortune truly ; the other doctors 

 in Stockholm must have been lean. 



1 Diary. 2 Ibid. 



* Hattar och Mostor in the Academy this was a friendly faction 

 of Blues and Greens, and perhaps a parody of the peace and war 

 parties at court, nicknamed Nightcaps,' or simply Caps ' ; the war- 

 like party \vas known as 'Hats.' The Hats recklessly plunged into 

 the Seven Years' War in 1757. 



4 About 250J. sterling. 

 VOL. II. G 



