LITTLE ing way on the subject of botany. QAbout the same 

 JOURNEYS time, with the help of Cliffort, Linnaeus published 

 another big book of his own called, " Fundamenta 

 Botanica." CJThis book was taken up at Oxford and 

 used as a text book, in preference to Ray. 

 Linnaeus received invitations from England and was 

 persuaded to take a trip across to that country. 

 He visited Oxford and London and was received by 

 scientific men as a conquering hero. He saw Garrick 

 act and heard George Frederick Handel, where the 

 crowd was so great that a notice was posted request- 

 ing gentlemen to come without swords and ladies with- 

 out hoops. Handel composed an aria in his honor. 

 Returning to Leyden, Linnaeus was urged by the 

 municipality to remain and rearrange the public flower 

 gardens and catalog the rare plants at the University. 

 This took a year, in which three more books were is- 

 sued under his skillful care. 



He now started for home in earnest, by way of Paris 

 with what a contemporary calls "a trunkful of medals." 

 QParis, too, had honors and employment for the great 

 botanist, but he escaped and at last reached Fahlun. 

 QHe had been gone nearly four years, and during the 

 interval had established his place in the scientific 

 world as the first botanist of the time. 

 '* It was love that sent me out of Sweden, and but for 

 love I would never have returned," he wrote. 

 Linnaeus and Sara Elizabeth were married June 26, 

 1739,* jfi 



And now the unexpected happened Upsala petitioned 

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