372 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



' In Gustavus Ill's letter of donation to the uni- 

 versity of Upsala, he directed that a marble statue of 

 Linnaeus should be placed in the lecture-room, an if to 

 signify whose doctrines and principles were to be the 

 guidance of future professors, and to testify the obliga- 

 tions of the science of botany to its immortal reformer.' * 



The chevalier Thunberg, his pupil, succeeded Lin- 

 naeus at Upsala. 



After his father's death, the younger Linne, who 

 was now thirty-seven years of age, purchased from his 

 mother, at her own price, his father's MSS. and collec- 

 tions, which he ought to have inherited ; he also travelled 

 for two years, pawning his own herbarium for fifty or 

 sixty pounds to defray his expenses. He travelled in 

 Holland, England, France, and Germany. In the spring 

 of 1782 Carl visited Holland, tracing with filial piety 

 every vestige of his father's steps at Hartecamp and 

 elsewhere, and receiving, as he had done at Paris and 

 London, ample contributions for his herbarium, library, 

 and museum of shells and insects. 2 



The manner in which Sir H. Sloane had received 

 the father, and the reception the son now met with, 



1 We may estimate the numerical part of Linnasus's work, in 

 one department, by the succeeding catalogues of plant species. 

 Theophrastus reckons 500 ; Pliny, 1,000 ; Greek, Roman, and Arabian 

 botanists, 1,400 ; Bauhin, 6,000 ; and Linnaeus, 8,800. Since his day 

 the list has enlarged to 89,000 and upwards ' BALFOUE. This was 

 written in 1853. The list has gone on continually enlarging. 

 Linnaeus made it possible for man to cope with the infinity of 

 Nature. 



2 Smith. 



