142 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINN&US 



Count Gyllenborg, the chancellor, a lover of botany, 

 who had been the companion of Rudbeck junior in his 

 travel to Lapland, considered the celebrity of the uni- 

 versity of Upsala as inseparable from his own fame. 

 He saw in Linnaeus one who could increase this cele- 

 brity ; so he made himself acquainted with him at Stock- 

 holm, and helped him to obtain this professorship. 



Although all sorts of shifts and evasions were em- 

 ployed at Upsala to hinder it, and Wallerius inveighed 

 against him in a public dissertation, the professorship 

 was given to Linnaeus, who removed with his family to 

 Upsala in September 1741. 1 This appointment was of 

 no advantage to him in a pecuniary sense, as, owing 

 to the full retiring pension drawn by Dr. Roberg, his 

 successor could only receive the salary of an adjunctus. 

 But this was little heeded by Linnaeus, whose chief 

 ambition it was to be a professor in Upsala University. 

 On October 17, on the occasion of his being formally 

 admitted to the professorship of Physics, he pronounced 

 a Latin address on the ' Necessity of Travelling in One's 

 Own Country.' 2 Crowds flocked to hear his inaugural 

 address ; the theatre was filled. He was remembered 

 from of old as an interesting lecturer, and the very dis- 

 pute concerning his appointment had roused public 

 curiosity concerning the person vilified by Wallerius. 

 His appearance awakened general enthusiasm, and his 

 address was listened to with breathless attention. It 



Diary. 

 2 Oratio de Peregrinationum intra Patriam necessitate. 



