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extent of their power, but beyond a definite amount 

 and a prescribed number of years they could not sup- 

 port him, by reason of the limited means at their dis- 

 posal and the need of exercising due fairness to other 

 applicants. For two years, consequently, he had been 

 without such pecuniary aid, when his position appeared 

 to him so precarious and unsatisfactory, that he re- 

 solved to appeal to his relatives for assistance. For a 

 man of his retiring and modest disposition such a re- 

 solve must have meant many pangs and inward struggles, 

 but at about midsummer in the year 1734 he summon- 

 ed up enough courage to lay his case before his two 

 brothers-in-law, Peter Biur and Jonas Liungberg, who 

 both resided at Umea, the former being a business man 

 and the latter a clergyman. The reception he met with 

 at their hands was more encouraging than he had dared 

 to hope; the wishes he entertained they fully entered 

 into and wholly approved of, so that the money and other 

 equipment he was in need of they promised to supply. 



At that period it was obligatory for any undergrad- 

 uate who was proposing to go abroad for the purposes 

 of study, to sit for a theological examination, and pur- 

 suant to that ordinance Artedi successfully passed the 

 test, on July 17 in the same year, as is briefly registered 

 in the minutes of the Theological Faculty: — "July 17. 

 Petrus Arctedi (sic), Student of Medicine, who is about 

 to travel abroad, duly examined." That preliminary 

 over, it only remained for him to obtain the sanction 

 of the Academic Consistory, in whose minutes for July 

 31 1734, may be read: — "§ 6. Resolved that in behalf 

 of Petrus Artedi Angermannus, Student of Medicine, 

 an Academic Certificate shall be issued, seeing that he 

 has declared his intention to travel abroad, and that 

 he has been duly examined in Theology pursuant to 

 the ordinance enjoining the same." 



Being thus fitted out with the pecuniary means and 

 the academic passport for making his way smooth, he 

 embarked in Stockholm, in the month of September 

 1734, on a vessel bound for England. 



