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his science. His way of living was moderate and par- 

 simonious, his dress plain, and oftentimes even shabby. 

 Tournefort was his pattern in his youth ; he did all he 

 could to equal him, and found at last that he had left 

 Tournefort at a great distance beneath him.' l He never 

 delayed anything he had to do, and noted down im- 

 mediately what he wished to preserve in memory. He 

 never neglected a lecture. 2 Fabricius says of him, 

 ' His greatest excellence consisted in the systematic 

 order of his thoughts. Whatever he did or said was 

 faithful to order, truth, and regularity.' He knew Ger- 

 man enough to converse with, but he spoke it rarely. 

 His foreign pupils either learnt Swedish, or always spoke 

 with the master in Latin. 



Here follows Fabricius' picture, redolent of genial 

 nature's perpetual idyll : 



c Our life was happier in the country in summer. 

 Our habitation was about a quarter of a league distant 

 from his house at Hammarby in a farm where we 

 kept our own furniture and requisites for housekeeping. 

 He rose very early in summer, commonly about four.' 3 

 c At six he came to us, because his house was then 

 building, breakfasted with us, and gave lectures upon 

 the natural orders of plants as long as he pleased, and 

 generally till about ten. We then wandered till twelve 



1 Fabricius. 2 Brightwell. 



3 ' He was accustomed to sleep five hours in summer and ten in 

 winter.' JACKSON, Enoycl. Brit., ninth edition. 



He habitually slept in summer from ten till three, in winter from 

 nine till six. STOEVER. 



