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of the year 1738, or the beginning of the next, 

 and fettled as a phyfician at Stockholm, where he 

 feems to have met with confiderable oppofition, 

 and was opprefTed with many difficulties ; all of 

 which at length he overcame, and got into ex- 

 tenfive practice ^ and, foon after his fettlement, 

 married the lady before fpoken of. By the 

 intereft of Count Teffin, who was afterwards 

 his great patron, and even procured medals to 

 be ftruck in honour of him, he obtained the 

 rank of phyfician to the fleet, and a ftipend from 

 the citizens for giving ledtures in botany. And 

 what at this time efpecially was highly favourable 

 to the advancement of his chara6ter and fame, 

 by giving him an opportunity of difplaying his 

 abilities, was the eftablifhment of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences at Stockholm \ of which Lin- 

 Ni5:us was conftituted the firft prefident, and to 

 which eftablifhment the king granted feveral pri- 

 vileges, particularly that of free poftage to all par 

 pers direfted to the fecretary. By the rules of the 

 academy, the prefident held his place but three 

 months, at the expiration of which, he made 

 his Oratio de memorahilibus in lnfe5lis, Od:. ^, 

 1739 j in which he endeavours to excite an atten- 

 tion and enquiry into the knowledge of infefe, by 

 difplaying the many {m^Xd^x phenomena that occur 

 in contemplating the nature of thofe animals, and 

 by pointing out, in a variety of inftances, their 

 ufefulnefs to mankind in particular, and to the 

 economy of nature in general. 



During all this time, however, Linnaeus appears 

 to have had his eye upon the botanic and medical 



chair 



