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lands of Hammarby ; where the land, unlike the rest 

 of the country round Upsala, resembles his native SmR- 

 land in being rocky and set with fir-trees. He wanted 

 a country home for his children, and a place to reti/e t< 

 in his old age. He gave 80,000 dollars, about 2,3307. 

 sterling, for his estate of Hammarby, and a neighbour- 

 ing one, called Sofja, that he purchased somewhat later. 



' Linnaeus began to build his house at Hammarby.' l 



In 1762 he received a diploma from the Royal 

 Academy of Paris. 



On March 19, 1763, in the twenty-second year of 

 his age, Carl von Linne was appointed adjunct professor 

 of botany, with a promise, hitherto unexampled, that 

 after his father's death he should succeed to all his 

 academical functions. 



' 1763. Linnaeus was excused from his professorial 

 services, and his son obtained a grant to fulfil his office, 

 though only twenty-one. However, the father con- 

 tinued to act as professor until the son was fully com- 

 petent.' 2 



Linnaeus's biographers dispute the date when he was 

 ennobled. Their assertions vary in a range from 1756 

 to 1764. In his own diary he mentions receiving in 

 November 1761 a patent of nobility antedated 1757. 

 Elsewhere he gives the date more precisely as April 

 11, 1757. He was now called Von Linne, as he ever 

 after signs himself, and is always so spoken of abroad. 

 In England we knew him best as Sir Charles Linnaeus. 

 1 Diary. 2 Ibid. 



