LINNAUS. 
HARLES LINNE, or LINN.EXUS, as he is 
usually called, was a person exactly adapted 
to the science of the times in which he lived. 
The various departments of natural history had 
not at that time their present extended range, and 
were all equally in need of revision and improve- 
ment, and above all the nomenclature of natural 
history required to be reduced to one uniform 
standard. Nature had gifted Linnzus with a 
logical accuracy of reasoning, and a neatness and 
appreciate, for the opinions of Linnzeus were re- 
ceived as oracular. 
Carl, the eldest son of Nils Linnzeus, was born 
May 24th, 1707, at Rushalt, in the province of 
Smaland, Sweden, where his father was a minis- 
ter. With an inheritance of a father’s love for 
plants and their cultivation, he is thus recorded 
by one of his pupils: ‘“‘ From the very time that 
he first left his cradle he almost lived in his 
arms, those sparks which shone so vividly all his 
lifetime, and latterly burst into such a flame.” 
