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tained a great wliile at Stockholm in consequence of 

 my deputation from the Academy to wait on our new 

 king. 



The correspondence between Ellis and Linnaauy was 

 pretty close at this epoch ; again in 1771 Ellis writes : 

 1 Poor Miller, through his obstinacy and impertinence 

 to the Society of Apothecaries, is turned out of the 

 botanical garden of Chelsea. I am sorry for it, as he 

 is now seventy-nine years of age : they will allow him 

 his stipend, but have chosen another gardener. His 

 vanity was so raised by his voluminous publications 

 that he considered no man to know anything but him- 

 self. Our booksellers have made fortunes by their 

 imposition of new editions of Miller's voluminous " Dic- 

 tionary," the whole or useful parts of which might 

 have been comprehended in a book of the size of your 

 "Genera Plantarum."' The mention of Miller must 

 have called back many memories of early days. 



Linne's biographers state that ' in the latter period 

 of his life the king ' [or, more probably, the university] 

 ' allowed him a double salary with his son.' Perhaps 

 this means that his son received the full salary of a 

 professor. It was the usual practice of the university 

 after thirty years' service to give the professor his full 

 pay as retiring pension, and it seems the new professor 

 had only the pay of adjunctus till the death of the 

 former professor. This, as we have seen, was so in the 

 case of Roberg and Linnaeus. The younger Von Linne 

 was already at Copenhagen in the summer of 1771. 



