158 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNj/EUs 



ought to be. He also laid out tlie garden agreeably to 

 his system, and at a promotion held at that time he deli- 

 vered his oration ' De Telluris Habitabilis Incremento.' l 



Since his installation as professor he had seemed 

 to perceive truths with more perfect clearness, and to 

 settle them in his own mind as he demonstrated them to 

 his pupils, stating the case with pellucid art. Had he, 

 then, grown ? or has the mind, as Carlyle asserts, its 

 cycles and seasons like nature, varying from the fer- 

 mentation of werden to the clearness of seyn ? When 

 H.R.H. Prince Adolf Friedrich inspected the university, 

 and the professors were presented to him by the chan- 

 cellor, Count Gyllenborg, Professor Andreas Celsius (son 

 of Dean Olaus Celsius) and Carl Linnasus were deno- 

 minated ' Lumina Academica,, on account of their 

 knowledge, which was celebrated within as well as 

 without the kingdom ; and the same year, when the 

 rector and four of the professors, of whom Linnasus was 

 one, waited on her Royal Highness to congratulate her 

 on the birth of a prince, Linnasus was the only one who 

 was ordered to proceed to Ekholmsund, and he there 

 had an audience of her Royal Highness. 



This was Louisa Ulrique, sister of Frederick (not 

 yet the Great) of Prussia. She had lately married the 

 heir of Sweden, c Adolf Friedrich, a Holstein-Gottorp 

 prince, come of royal kin, and cousin to Karl XII. 

 He is Bishop of Liibeck, or of Eutin, so styled (a title of 

 courtesy), now in his thirty- third year (1744).' 2 Living 

 1 Diary. 2 Carlyle. 



