CONTENTS. 11 



hours for the Improvement of the Arts — His Works on Natural 

 Histor}', of which the Memoirs on Insects are the most import- 

 ant — His Occupations and Mode of Life, Pf»g6 183 



LINN^US. 

 SECTION I. 



BIRTH AND EDUCATION OF LINN^US. 



Birth and Parentage of Linnaeus — He is destined for the Clerical 

 Profession— His early Fondness for Plants — He is sent to School, 

 where his Progress is so slow that his Father resolves to make 

 him a Shoemaker — Is rescued from this Fate by Dr Rothmann, 

 who receives him into his Family — He becomes decidedly at- 

 tached to the Study of Nature, enters the University of Lund, 

 and is patronised by Professor Stobeeus — When on an Excursion 

 is attacked by a dangerous Malady — Stobaeus surprises him in 

 his nocturnal Studies — He goes to Upsal — Is reduced to ex- 

 treme Poverty, from which he is relieved by Professor Celsius, 

 whom he assists — Is next patronised by Rudbeck, and delegated 

 to read his Lectures — Forms a Friendship with Artedi, 193 



SECTION II. 



JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 



annaeus, chosen b}^ the Royal Society of Upsal to travel in Lap- 

 land, sets out in May 1732— Enters Lycksele Lapland — A Lap- 

 land Beauty — Beds made of Hair-moss — Conversation of a Cu- 

 rate and a Schoolmaster — The Lapland Alps — Their Vegetation 

 — Brief Account of the Rein-deer — Passing over the alpine Re- 

 gion, he enters Norway — Again visits the mountainous Region 

 — Difficulties of the Journey — Pearl-fishery — Forests set on Fire 

 by Lightning — At Lulea he discovers the Cause of an epidemic 



