LINNJEUS. 



ences, it Was announced to him that lie 

 was elected a corresponding member. 

 The attachment of the French to the me- 

 thod of their eminent countryman, Tour- 

 nefort, was unfavourable to the reception 

 of the Linnxan system among them, but 

 lie had reason to be satisfied with the 

 personal attention which he experienced. 

 At Rouen he embarked for Sweden, 

 where, on his arrival, he immediately pro- 

 ceeded to Fahlun, and was formally be- 

 trothed to the object of his affections. In 

 the month of September he went to Stock- 

 holm, in order to try his fortune as a phy- 

 sician ; but he found that his fame as a 

 botanist had either not reached thither, 

 or was of no service to him as a practi- 

 tioner. At length, however, he obtained 

 the confidence of some young men of 

 rank, who gave him considerable employ- 

 ment. A private meeting of men of sci- 

 ence being formed in the capital, Linnaeus 

 was made an associate, and had the pre- 

 cedency for the first three months : this 

 institution was the parent of the Royal 

 Academy of Stockholm. His reputation 

 made him known to Count Tessin, Mar- 

 shal of the Diet, by whose influence a 

 salary was conferred upon him, with the 

 condition of his giving public lectures on 

 botany in the summer, and on mineralo- 

 gy in the winter. That nobleman 

 also procured for him the post of Phy- 

 sician to the Navy, and gave him a gene- 

 ral invitation to his table. His affairs now 

 wore so prosperous an aspect, that he 

 would no longer delay his union with his 

 betrothed Anna-Elizabeth Morsea, and 

 they married in June, 1739. 



The death of Rudbeck, professor of bo- 

 tany at Upsal, in 1740, opened to Linnaeus 

 a prospect of the literary situation which 

 had always been the object of his wishes, 

 in which he might devote himself entire- 

 ly to the improvement of natural history, 

 uninterrupted by the cares of medical 

 practice. He had, however, a competi- 

 tor, Rousen, his ancient rival and antago- 

 nist, whose superior academical claims 

 obtained the preference. But the resig- 

 nation of Rouberg, the medical professor, 

 having made another vacancy, that chair 

 was given to Linnaeus, with the condition 

 that he and Rousen should divide the 

 business of the two professorships between 

 them ; and to the former were allotted 

 the departments of the botanic garden, 

 materia medica, simiology, diaetetics, and 

 natural history in general. Before his re- 

 moval to Upsal, he was engaged by the 

 States to travel through the Southern pro- 

 vinces of Sweden, for the purpose of col- 



lecting such information as might tend to 

 the improvement of agriculture and manu- 

 factures. In this tour'he was accompanied 

 by six pupils, and he performed the task 

 to the satisfaction of the States : its re- 

 sult was printed. He entered on his pro- 

 fessorship in the autumn of 1741, on 

 which occasion he pronounced a Latin, 

 oration " On the necessity of travelling 

 one's own country." His own past exer- 

 tions in this respect rendered it a very 

 entertaining and interesting composition. 

 In the same year he made the tour of the 

 islands of Oeland and Gothland, by order 

 of the States ; and in subsequent years 

 he travelled, by the same requisition, 

 through West Gothland and Scania. Ex- 

 clusive of these exertions his abode was 

 henceforth fixed at Upsal, and the re- 

 maining history of his life is only that of 

 his literary and scientific labours, and of 

 the honours and distinctions which were 

 accumulated upon him. 



One of his first cares was to improve 

 and new model the academic garden. 

 He procured the erection of several new 

 buildings, arranged the plants according 

 to his own system, and founded a mu- 

 seum of natural history in part of the 

 green-house. In 1745 he published the 

 first edition of his '* Flora Succica," an 

 admirable specimen of a local catalogue, 

 and the pattern of all those which have 

 since been made upon the Linn?ean sys- 

 tem. In the next year appeared his 

 " Fauna Succica," or Catalogue of the 

 Animal Kingdom in Sweden, arranged 

 also according to his own method. In the 

 numerous and difficult class of insects he 

 adopted an entirely new method of ar- 

 rangement, which has been adopted by 

 most later entomologists. His merits, 

 indeed, with respect to this class of na- 

 tural productions, stands next to those 

 with respect to the vegetable produc- 

 tions. The same accurate inspection 

 was requisite in both, and from the 

 immense number of subjects in each, 

 it was equally necessary in both to 

 search out for minute diversities, where- 

 on to found an artificial classification. 

 The credit he was now acquiring in his 

 own country appeared in his election 

 to the post of Secretary to the Acade- 

 my of Sciences at Upsal, in a medal of 

 him struck at the expence of some noble- 

 men in 1746, and in his nomination by the 

 king to the rank and title of archiater, in 

 1747. He now also began to exert his in- 

 fluence in procuring the mission of his 

 young disciples to different parts ol the 

 globe, in order to make discoveries in na- 



