LIFE AT STOCKHOLM 85 



ments and nostrums at home, many of which he called 

 ' economical notions.' * I dare say Mrs. Linnsous had 

 often to call him to order. Scientific men, natural his- 

 torians especially, have a way of expanding themselves 

 about the premises until there is no space left fit to use 

 or to sit down on. Spectators, who visit the learned 

 husband for the sake of natural history, are apt to 

 construe into domestic tyranny the necessary household 

 regulations, without which there would be no comfort in 

 the house at all. Anyway, it is ill standing between 

 man and wife. Linnseus was satisfied, so we may sup- 

 pose him happy. 



He stayed rather more than a month in bliss at 

 Sveden and Falun, and we may infer that he carried his 

 beautiful bride to Upsala to show off his happiness to 

 his friends and enviers there, as the diary says it was 

 September 12 (1739) when 'he again went to Stock- 

 holm to resume the duties with which he had been en- 

 trusted.' He remained three years in all at Stockholm. 2 



It must have given him great pleasure to show to 

 his Elizabeth the beauties of the capital, the charming 

 Northern city that enchants all visitors ; that to-day 

 abounds in enjoyments of scenery, gardens, excursions, 

 music, animation, and all the delights of a pure gaiety, 

 with abundant intellectual culture. 



'At the end of September he laid down the 

 presidency of the Academy of Sciences,' 3 an office of 

 three months' duration, after the French plan. 'By 



1 Afnen elwnomisli. 2 Turton. ' Diary. 



