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able fun,' as Kingsley calls it, who also enjoyed watching 

 the movements and manners of animals. The family of 

 the Crustacea, especially the soldier crab, and others, 

 were an inexhaustible source of amusement to him. It 

 is most laughable to watch the ways of a pet tortoise 

 on a London balcony how he gallops, tortoisesquely, 

 towards fresh lettuces. The fabulists, Kriloif and others, 

 and the author of c Rheinecke Fuchs ' show us how 

 many volumes of tales can be extracted from the hints 

 afforded by their ways. Linne especially enjoyed these 

 amusements in his later years. 



Another wedding in the family added to his happi- 

 ness as a father. ( The Danish Professor Vahl is re- 

 ported, when a student, to have made an impression on 

 the heart of Linne's youngest daughter, Sophia, which 

 her father did not think it proper to countenance, and 

 which is supposed to have prevented his showing that 

 favour and encouragement to the young Dane which 

 his acuteness and zeal in botanical studies certainly 

 deserved. Sophia, the favourite daughter, married at 

 eighteen, in 1775, Samuel Dusc, procurator of the 

 senate (or syndic) of the university of Upsala.' J Louisa 

 and Sara Christina lived unmarried at Hammarby. 



Linne still took a lively interest in the politics of 

 the scientific world, and was eager to hear all about the 

 researches of Haller, and others of his German and 

 English correspondents, from his son, who had made a 

 prolonged tour in Europe. c Linnasus's works had the 

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