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him to live with him, treated him hke a son, and allowed 

 him to make free use of his magnificent horticulutral garden. 

 He also sent him to England to procure rare plants, and 

 gave him a liberal income. This continued for some time 

 till Linnaeus's health began to fail, and he found besides 

 that he had learnt all he could in this place, so he resolved 

 to leave his kind friend and wander farther. Mr. Clifford 

 seems to have been much hurt at his leaving, yet he con- 

 tinued his kindness to him through life. 



Linnaeus went to Leyden and Paris, and from there to 

 Stockholm, where he practised as a physician, and at last he 

 settled down as Professor of Medicine and Natural History 

 at Upsala, where he founded a splendid botanical garden, 

 which served as a model for many such gardens in other 

 countries, such as the Jardin de Trianon in France, and 

 Kew Gardens 4n England. His struggles with poverty were 

 now over for ever, and his fame as a botanist was spread all 

 over the world. He used to set out in the summer days 

 with more than 200 pupils to collect plants and insects in 

 the surrounding country, and many celebrated people came 

 to Stockholm to attend Linnseus's * Excursions.' Then as his 

 pupils spread over the world he employed them to collect 

 specimens of plants and animals from distant countries, and 

 he himself worked incessantly to classify them into one 

 great system. 



Linnaeus g^ves Specific Names to Plants and Animals. 

 — And now we must try to seize upon the chief points of 

 Linnseus's work, that you may be able to understand some- 

 thing of what he did for science, although it is quite impos- 

 sible for us to give even a sketch of his divisions of the 

 animal and vegetable kingdoms. The first and greatest 

 point of all was that he gave a second or specific name to 

 every plant and animal. Before his time botanists had 



