ANECDOTES OF LINNAEUS. 



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ALL authentic particulars, which can contribute to 

 a stricter knowledge of the life, character, and pe- 

 culiarities of a man who has rendered himself as 

 eminent and as immortal as Linnaeus, cannot fail to 

 prove agreeable and interesting. We shall therefore 

 subjoin here those anecdotes which Professor Fabri- 

 cius of Kiel, one of his most celebrated pupils, has 

 collected respecting him. 



" For two whole years," relates Fabricius, namely 

 from 1762 till 1764, " have I been so fortunate as 

 to enjoy his instruction, his guidance and his con- 

 fidential friendship. Not a day elapsed, on which 

 I did not see him, on which I was not either pre- 

 sent at his lectures, or as it frequently happened, 

 spent several hours with him in familiar conversa- 

 tion. In summer we followed him into the country. 

 We were three, Khun, Zoega, and I, all foreigners. 

 In winter we lived directly facing his house, and he 

 came to us almost every day, in his short red role 

 de chambre, ^vith a green fur cap on his head and a 



