70 SOME AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANISTS 



There is a little glimpse of his life in Upsala in 

 the diary of Professor Fabricius, then fellow- 

 pupil with Kuhn, who writes : 



" For two whole years [from 1762 till 1764] 

 have I been so fortunate as to enjoy his [Lin- 

 naeus 1 ] instruction, his guidance and his confi- 

 dential friendship. Not a day elapsed on which 

 I did not see him, on which I w r as not either 

 present at his lectures, or, as it frequently hap- 

 pened, spent several hours with him in familiar 

 conversation. In summer, we followed him into 

 the country. We were three, Kuhn, 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 robe-de-chambre with a 

 green fur cap on his head and a pipe in his hand. 

 He came for half an hour, but stopped a whole 

 one and many times two. His conversation on 

 these occasions was extremely sprightly and 

 pleasant. It either consisted in anecdotes relative 

 to the learned in his profession, with whom he 

 got acquainted in foreign countries, or in clear- 

 ing up our doubts, or giving us other kinds of 

 instruction. He used to laugh then most heartily, 

 and displayed a serenity and an openness of 

 countenance which proved how much his soul 

 was susceptible of amity and good-fellowship." 



1 Stoever's Life of Linnaeus. 



