i6o THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINN^US 



In 1745 Linnaeus established in the greenhouse (?) 

 at Upsala a museum of national history, with the many 

 rare animals given by the chancellor, Count Gyllenborg, 

 and also the large collection which H.R.H. Prince 

 Adolf Friedrich was pleased to present. 1 



4 This summer Linnaeus went to Falun to take pos- 

 session of his wife's inheritance from her father, who 

 died at the end of last year.' 2 This claim the Morasus 

 family, and particularly his wife's mother, appears to 

 have disallowed, and he seems to have gained little by 

 the event, except the old medical library of Dr. Moraeus, 

 which still makes part of his own. , 



In 1745 Linnaeus published the first edition of his 

 * Flora Suecica'; and in 1746 his 'Fauna Suecica,' at 

 which he had laboured for fifteen years, 3 came out. These 

 books were printed together. ' These works are models 

 for such compositions, especially the second editions, 

 published many years afterwards, with specific names 

 and many valuable additions.' 4 



( War keeps the Muses silent ' [in France], writes 

 Bernard de Jussieu to Linnaeus, May 1745, while look- 

 ing out for his book on the Baltic Corals. 



It was different in Sweden. Now was Linngeus's 

 time of greatest literary fecundity, immortalising his 

 studies and making them of profit to the age. The 

 bubbling enthusiasm of fermenting youth had settled 



friends. The other was Filenius, professor of divinity (1740) at 

 Abo, and afterwards Bishop of Link oping. A brilliant triad. 

 1 Diary. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid. 4 Smith. 



