XXX11 LIST OF AUTHORS 



sexual method of division (not first established by Linne) 

 has now given way to the Natural System introduced by 

 DeCandolle and the two De Jussieus. In the animal 

 kingdom, the Linnsean divisions of all Orders were much 

 more in accordance with natural affinities ; numbers of 

 genera were for the first time classified, and, especially 

 among the insects, Linne was the first to name and cha- 

 racterize the particular species. To return from his 

 works to the author himself; on quitting Holland, 

 Linne visited England and France, then returned to 

 Sweden, and settled in Stockholm as a physician : fortu- 

 nately he obtained few patients ; but, through the friend- 

 ship of the Baron Karl de Geer and the Count de Tessin 

 (to whom are dedicated the successive editions of the 

 Syst. Nat.), he was made, in 1738, physician to the 

 Navy, and was appointed to give lectures on Botany in 

 the capital; in 1739 he was Physician to the King, and 

 President of the newly -formed Academy of Sciences at 

 Stockholm ; in this year also he married Sara Elizabet 

 More, who, six years before, had won his affection at 

 Fahlun. In 1741 he was promoted to the Botanical 

 Chair in the University of Upsala, the great object of his 

 ambition; in 1753 he received from the hand of his so- 

 vereign the knighthood of the Polar Star, an honour 

 never before conferred for literary merit ; and in 1756 

 was raised into the ranks of the nobility by the title of 

 the Chevalier von Linne'. Meanwhile Linne profited 

 unceasingly by all the means which his daily-increasing 

 reputation gave him to perfect his works, and extend his 

 influence : he travelled through various provinces of 

 Sweden to observe and collect their natural products, and 

 published accounts of his journeys, full of interesting 

 particulars, connected not only with natural history, but 

 with the antiquities of the districts, the habits and agri- 

 culture of the people : the results of his Swedish travels 

 were comprised in the " Fauna Suecica" (1746), and the 

 "Flora Suecica," which appeared nine years later; he 

 published also, under the title of ' ' Amcenitates Acade- 

 micse," a series of essays on subjects connected with 

 vegetable physiology, the economy of plants or animals, 

 and the philosophy of natural history. Linne' s society 

 is described as full of charms ; his single weakness was 

 inordinate vanity and excessive love of praise. His do- 

 mestic life was unhappy, through the conduct of his wife, 

 a profligate woman, who rendered his home uncomfortable 

 by parsimony and petty tyranny, and who conceived a 



