ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



In 1727, Linnaeus was matriculated at the uni- 

 versity of Lund. In 1728 he was induced to quit 

 this university for Upsal, as a superior school of 

 medicine and botany. But the slender support 

 which his father could afford him — a capital of eight 

 pounds sterling being totally inadequate, he was, in 

 this new situation, reduced to the greatest necessity. 

 Private pupils were not to be procured by a poor un- 

 known student. He was obliged to trust to chance 

 for a meal ; and when he relates that he had no way 

 of mending his shoes but by folded paper, he seems 

 to have felt the want even of the cobbler's education 

 whieh had been recommended to him. After strug- 

 gling with various difficulties, in which he never re- 

 laxed from his studies, we find him, in 1732, with 

 an appointment to travel through Lapland, under the 

 Royal authority, and at the expence of the academy. 

 " I set out alone from the city of Upsal, on Friday, 

 May 12, 1732, old style, at eleven o'clock, being at 

 that time within half a day of twenty-five years of 

 age." He travelled on horseback, but slenderly pro- 

 vided with baggage ; and, after visiting the Lapland 

 Alps on foot, and descending to the coast of Norway, 

 returned by Tornea, and the East side of the Bothnian 

 Gulf, to Abo, and so to Upsal, which he reached on 

 the 10th of October, having performed a journey of 

 nearly 4000 English miles. Disappointed in his 

 views of medical advancement, Linnaeus turned his 

 attention to mineralogy, and gave lectures on the art 

 of assaying ; and having scraped together about 

 fifteen pounds, now entered on his travels. After a 

 stay of eight days at Amsterdam, he proceeded to 

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