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by the inhabitants as the favorite resort of the professors. The 
promenade ends at the library, the first of the university buildings, 
back of which, and separated from it by a grove in which are 
stones with curious Runic inscriptions, is a large building con- 
taining the university laboratories. Close by is the Botanical 
Garden, where strangers are shown Linnzus’s myrtle, which is still 
kept alive for the purpose of supplying travellers with relics. In 
this way the more valuable mementoes of Linnzeus are preserved 
from the ravages of curiosity hunters. In the hall of the herba- 
rium building is a marble statue of the father of botany, in a 
sitting posture, by Byström. The expression of the face is ex- 
tremely beautiful, but unfortunately not very much like Linneus, . 
if we are to trust the portrait at Stockholm, which was considered 
an excellent likeness. Professor Areschoug, best known by his 
algological writings, resides close to the garden. He is a rather 
short, thick-set man, and in his method of study is decidedly Ger- 
man. is collection of microscopic preparations of alge is large, 
and the preparations are beautifully mounted. 
_ Linneus’ city house, at the old Botanic Garden, is still to be 
seen, nearly unaltered, but it contains no relics of its distinguished 
owner. There are some, however, at his country house at Ham- 
marby, five miles from town, and in the little building near it which 
contained his herbarium and museum. A good idea of these and 
of all the souvenirs of Linnzus is to be had from a series of fif- 
teen small photographs, with an accompanying sheet of letter 
press, which were published a few years ago, and are still on sale. 
The collection was advertised at the time in most of the botanical 
journals, is not expensive, and could readily be obtained, I pre- 
sume, by those who would be interested in these memorials. A 
visit to Upsala is incomplete without an excursion to the tombs of 
Thor, Frei and Odin, three mounds a short distance from the 
town. To make the scene more impressive, the Swedish urchins 
roll over and over down the mounds for a slight gratuity. Ata 
restaurant near by, one is also expected to drink mead out of 
horns mounted with silver and inscribed with the names of princes 
and nobles who drank heavily from them in days of yore. 
