386 LINN^US. 



SECTION XIII. 



A hrief Notice of LinncBus s Son. 



Unnatural Conduct of the Mother of the Younger Linnaeus — His 

 Birth and Education — In his eighteenth Year he is appointed 

 Demonstrator of Botan}^, and, three Years after, Conjunct Pro- 

 fessor of Natural History — He visits England, France, Holland, 

 Germany, and Denmark — On returning engages in the Dis- 

 charge of his Duties ; but at Stockholm is seized with Fever, 

 which ends in Apoplexy, by which he is carried off — His Cha- 

 racter and Funeral. 



Although the younger Linnaeus has been consider- 

 ed as a botanist rather than a zoologist, a brief notice 

 of him may be suitably appended to the biography of 

 his father, more especially as he can scarcely be said 

 to have possessed an independent existence, either 

 as a man or as a naturalist. The victim of domestic 

 tyranny, he seems to have lost whatever energy he 

 might originally have possessed^ and to have passed 

 through life without being influenced by those power- 

 ful motives which usually impel ambitious men in 

 their career. His mother, who in her conduct to- 

 wards him bore some resemblance to the infamous 

 mother of Savage the poet, entirely broke his spirit, 

 which perhaps was never of the most ardent or aspir- 

 ing description. Not content with making his home 

 as uncomfortable as she could, she conceived a posi- 

 tive hatred for her only son, which she displayed by 



