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the plants, anfwer to his Mufeum Zeyknkum', putr- 

 lifted in 17 1 7. 



We now fee Linn^^^us fixed in the fituatioa 

 that was fo well adapted to his charafter, his tafte, 

 and abilities, and which feems to have been the 

 objed of his ambition, and center of his hopes. 

 Soon after his eftablifhment, he laboured to get 

 the Academical Garden, which had been founded 

 in 1657, put on a better footing, and very foon 

 effeded it ; procuring alfo a houfe to be built foF 

 the refidence of the profeffor. The whole had 

 been in ruin ever fince the fire in 1702, and at the 

 time Linn^us was appointed profefibr of botany, 

 the garden did not contain above 50 plants that 

 were exotic. His correfpondence with the firft 

 botanifts in Europe^ foon fupplied him with great 

 variety. He received Indian plants from Jujfieu of 

 Paris ^ and from Van Roy en of Ley den ; European 

 plants from Haller and Ludwig ; American plants 

 from the late Mr, Collinfon, Mr. Catejhy^ and others ; 

 and variety of annuals from Dillenius : in fhort, 

 how much the garden owed to his diligence and 

 care, in a few years, may be feen by the catalogue 

 publiflied under the title of Hortus Upsaliensis 

 eMhens Plantas exoticas horto Upfalienjis Academi^e a 

 fefe (Linnseo) illatas ab anno 1742, in annum 1748, 

 addiiis, differentiis fynonymis^ hahitationibus, hofpitiis^ 

 rariorumque defcriptionibus^ in gratiam ftudiofa ju- 

 ventutis. Holm. 174B, 8**, pp. 306, tab. 3. By 

 this catalogue it appears that the profefibr had 

 introduced 1 100 fpecies, exclufive of all the 

 Swedijh plants, and of varieties ; which latter, 

 in ordinary gardens, amount not infrequently 



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