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his father's death, which happened when Carl was 

 thirty-seven years of age. 



He was overjoyed when his father gave him dupli- 

 cates of plants which his herbarium contained, and he 

 received other encouragements. All on a sudden his 

 soul was roused from lethargy, and he shook off the ties 

 which had warped his faculties. 1 Carl, who had learned 

 to draw from nature, at twenty-one published his first 

 ' Decas Plantarum Rariorum Horti Upsaliensis ' (' Ten 

 Hare Plants of the Upsal Collection'), the plates of 

 which, in outline only, were drawn by his own hand. 

 In 1763 another Decas, or collection of ten species, 

 came out upon the same plan. 2 



Fru von Linne's parsimony, inherited from her father, 

 the old Dr. Morseus, and the only heritage she obtained 

 from him, was the less excusable in that Linnaeus was 

 now the richest professor in Upsala, and perhaps tho 

 wealthiest inhabitant. His annual stipend was 700 

 pl&tar or florins, and 120 tons of corn ; making an 

 annual income of about 500 Swedish rix dollars, vary- 

 ing with the price of corn. He also received a ducat 

 a sheet for his works as an author, besides fees from 

 private pupils. 



His regular fee for private lectures, which he de- 

 livered during the summer at Hammarby, was a ducat 

 (about nine shillings and sixpence) a lecture ; but he 

 never would receive more than four pupils for the 

 course. 



1 Gieseke. 2 Smith. 



