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his friendship, and so far was he from withholding it, 

 that he promised me his services too, if such I needed, 

 — a promise he afterwards most loyally kept. This 

 sacred friendship, thus spontaneously sealed, we fostered 

 uninterruptedly for seven years in Upsala, at all times 

 with the same fidelity, but with ever-increasing warmth 

 and attachment. He was my closest and most intimate 

 friend and I was his". 



The bond of friendship and fellowship between the 

 two lasted through life, and proved not alone a source 

 of mutual joy, but likewise a factor of the utmost im- 

 portance in their several careers as scientific investiga- 

 tors and scholars. The intercourse they had with one 

 another is yet further dealt with in the above-mentioned 

 Introduction and in "Autographic Notes by Linnaeus 

 concerning Himself", published in 1823; in the latter 

 he proceeds to characterise his friend in comparison 

 with himself in the following manner: — "Artedi was of 

 a more retiring disposition than I, more seriously 

 minded, more attentive to details, slower in observation 

 and in everything he did, but, on the other hand, more 

 accurate. As for myself, I was quicker in the actual 

 doing of any piece of work, Artedi being prone to a 

 certain extent to procrastinate; it did not, however, sel- 

 dom happen that he had the laugh of me, by reason 

 of my having to begin my work all over again because 

 some important fact had escaped my memory." 



"It was inevitable", Linnaeus continues further on 

 in the same work, "that a certain degree of good-na- 

 tured rivalry should assert itself now and then between 

 us. Thus, when I despaired of ever attaining to the 

 same degree of familiarity with the lore of the alchem- 

 ists that he was possessed of, I had reluctantly to 

 acknowledge the fact and relinquished from that time 

 forth the pursuit of that study altogether; he, again, 

 to keep the balance true, as it were, obligingly desisted 

 from the keen inquiry he had previously been following 

 up in the department of Botany, which I was making 



