12 LINN £US, 
Academy of Stockholm. By some lucrative ap- 
now at the height of his career of reputation and 
prosperity; he had nevertheless his opponents 
and detractors. To show that all men of learning 
did not agree with his libellers, he published. a 
brief sketch of his life and a list of his works, 
and the various testimonials to his talents, and 
relied upon the judgment that would be given in 
his favor upon the word of a Boerhaave, a Dill- 
enius, a Sauvages, a Jussieu and a Haller. He 
avers he was not above being corrected when 
done in a proper spirit, for who could perambu- 
late without erring the wide-spread fields of 
nature? Who could observe everything with 
perfect accuracy ? 
At the age of thirty-four we find Linnwus en- 
joying the fruits of all his labors and _ perse- 
verance, teaching his favorite science as its head 
in Sweden; he enjoyed himself to the utmost; he 
called his garden ‘this Elysium,’ and the 
enthusiasm with which he set about improving 
it knew no bounds. Linneus undertook the 
reform of the botanic garden of Upsala; a new 
green house was erected, an old house of stone 
built by the great Rudbeck was converted, as 
Linneus says, from an owl’s nest into a lodging 
fit for the professor, and in a few years the garden 
at Upsala ranked equal, if not superior to similar 
establishments in the first capitals of Europe. 
The number of students increased to one thous- 
and, and the fame of the University extended 
over Europe, and even to America, 
