CONTENTS. 



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hours for the Improvement of the Arts— His Works on Natural 

 History, of which the Memoirs on Insects are the most import- 

 ant—His Occupations and Mode of Life, Paj^e 183 



LINNJEUS. 

 SECTION I. 



BIRTH AND EDUCATION" OF LIKN.^;US. 



Birth and Parentag'e of Linnaeus— He is destined for the Clerical 

 Profession— His early Fondness for Plants—He is sent to School, 

 where his Progress is so slow that his Father resolves to make 

 him a Shoemaker— Is rescued from this Fate by Dr Rothmann, 

 who receives him into his Family— He becomes decidedly at- 

 tached to the Study of Nature, enters the University of Lund, 

 and is patronised by Professor Stobaeus— When on an Excursion 

 is attacked by a dangerous Malady— Stobaeus surprises him in 

 his nocturnal Studies— He goes to Upsal— Is reduced to ex- 

 treme Poverty, from which he is relieved by Professor Celsius, 

 whom he assists— Is next patronised by Rudbeck, and delegated 

 to read his Lectures — Forms a Friendship with Artedi, 193 



SECTION II. 



JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 



Linnaeus, chosen by the Royal Society of Upsal to travel in Lap- 

 land, sets out in May 1732 — Enters Lycksele Lapland — A Lap- 

 land Beauty — Beds made of Hair-moss— Conversation of a Cu- 

 rate and a Schoolmaster— The Lapland Alps— Their Vegetation 

 — Brief Account of the Rein-deer — Passing over the alpine Re- 

 gion, he enters Norway — Again visits the mountainous Region 

 —Difficulties of the Journey — Pearl-fishery— Forests set on Fire 

 by Lightning — At Lulea he discovers the Cause of an epidemic 



