316 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



But our hero's life, so splendid to all appearance, 

 was not all happiness. Time was removing his friends 

 and fellow-labourers ; though, of those who furthered 

 science with him from the outset of life, Rosen and he 

 still stood in the front together. Sir Hans Sloane died 

 January 1753, aged 93. Dean Celsius died, aged 76, 

 in 1756. 1 He always found, among his academical 

 colleagues, the warmest and most grateful of friends in 

 his former pupil. Linnaeus always cherished his memory ; 

 they were like father and son : it was a true adoption. 



His second son, Johan von Linne (as the family 

 now began to be called), born April 7, 1754, died 

 March 7, 1757. Linnaeus alludes thus tenderly to the 

 lost child : ' My little son Johan, who had just begun 

 to talk a little, was attacked with the epidemic cough. 

 After having been ill eight days he took leave of the 

 world in the night between 12 and 1. He had not 

 attained the age of three years.' 



i November 8, 1757. My daughter Sophia was born 

 dead (to all appearance), but by means of insufflatoria 

 medicina came to life in the space of half an hour, and 

 was baptized November 9.' 2 One account speaks of his 

 clasping the seemingly stillborn infant passionately, 

 saying, ' She must not, shall not die ! ' He pressed her 

 to his bosom, emitting his breath from his mouth to 

 hers, and, behold, she revived and lived ! This was told 

 Stoever by an intimate friend of Linnaeus in Germany. 

 Sophia was his favourite daughter. 



1 He was born in 1680. 2 Diary. 



