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SECTION 11. 



LINNiEUS GOES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LUND.— DE PENDS ON THE SUPPORT OF 

 PROFESSOR HUMyERUS HIS RELATIVE, RESIDENT THERE.— THE LATTER IS BURIED 

 ON HIS ARRIVAL.— LIXKAUS INSINUATES HIMSELF IN THE FAVOUR OF PRO- 

 FESSOR STOB.EUS.— IS RECEIVED IN HIS FAM ILY.— COLLECTS AN HERBAL.— IS 

 IN DANGER OF LOSING HIS LIFE IN ONE OF HIS EXCURSIONS.— HIS UNCOM- 

 MON DILIGENCE.— AN ANECDOTE.— GOES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF UPSAL.— 

 HIS TEACHERS,— HIS POVERTY.— IS OBLIGED TO MEND HIS SHOES WITH THE 

 BARK OF TREES.— MAKES ACQUAINTANCE WITH OLAUS CELSIUS.— SOME AC- 

 COUNT OF THIS LEARNED MAN.— IS RECEIVED INTO HIS HOUSE.— READS A 

 WORK OF VAILLANT, THE FRENCH BOT^\NIST.— FORMS THE IDEA OF CREAT- 

 ING A NEW SYSTEM OF BOTAN Y.— GETS ACQUAINTED WITH OLAUS RUDBECK, 

 —BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION RESPECTING THE LATTER.— LINN^^US GOES 

 TO LIVE WITH HIM.— READS LECTURES ON BOTANY FOR HIM.— LAYS THE 

 FOUNDATION OF HIS NEW SYSTEM.— FORMS CONNECTIONS WITH PETER AR- 

 TEDI.— RECIPROCAL EMULATION.— HISTORY OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP.— ROYAL 

 SOCIETY OF SCIENCES AT UPSAL.— LIN N^US IS CHOSEN TO TRAVEL IN LAP- 

 LAND. 



Of the two universities in the kingdom of Sweden, narrow- 

 ness of family circumstances constrained Linnaeus to fix his choice 

 on that of Lund, situate in the province of Schonen. A certain pro- 

 fessor Hum/er us, was his relative there, and had promised to support 

 him. Under such auspices Linnaeus set out for Lund in 1727, with 

 the most pleasant prospefts before him. But these all at once vanished. 

 He scarcely had arrived there, and prepared himself to wait on Hu- 

 MiERus, when he was informed that the last duty hadjust been paid to 



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